Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e658421b71c8dc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 15:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 3c595bb26597461efb9bbfb740305957 SHA-1: 64ee8348089770bd6a361883d09d336e0e8aebeb SHA-256: 5e658421b71c8dc79380f67ccdade0b53a67f5795314329e755a21ccd8b78876
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the document likely serving as a lure to a secondary malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d8e8648abb5c6d7126106bc9bc8ef86/87102917560.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c8cc6ba01---kabajufevuxixujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4v3rr9dfei9tk7e2r3va7o8db/liturukigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/64447457515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14be6263a6---5396189972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/67634682294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mihnamtn9r0a5989do8tbauem1/7609787980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/nejubegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72a5490f71---56096425792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/131205393064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/migiberobazafoweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/28008864710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/rakovejamagubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2u3etb6naqejp59idfc6r25a/vofumoliganukesipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/muradopasoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094124d7dc95---rolezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2628ca84e1---bamanadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/53180043670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/koxiwokasegitake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53620f099be53d6e117e9c6f91ae8e25/88022367414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b69101c4cc---8781962092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/nuletorofupujaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=themen+aktuell+1+arbeitsbuch+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7A 19536 bytes
SHA-256: a39e79e7064db8a78226bdd7ad0cc415c8c7337db33d38d64e89e8086262f8c5
font_01_sfnt_off00013dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15601 11316 bytes
SHA-256: a073e67819f2258732a53ba33f5e08e594bfbafa17360259384109db0a854321