Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e6b9d09837ed0d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f752ad5925f2758a9207d2aa7424a94f SHA-1: fac9ea2b215b8fd2345a30781ef69c32fcea541f SHA-256: 5e6b9d09837ed0d9dc045e631fa91a8aeea6ce18b6ab97043f08aa9763058f32
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, leveraging a link farm to direct users to malicious content hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing operations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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 http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/97701797355.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/vefananoxoxafijoloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82653cdd585c0bcaef868b1492950bd5/wibunobobipugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e821910568393313e23965463abc21/98694876954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/ruwomulufazexeworisudepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/bupasoligizomezabufebeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5fb4ce4819---83071074841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50eb3c4688---94028633693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transgusto.ch/userfiles/file/18454281447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ch2l2vii023fvma1gdsud0cv6/sudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8fe087050---91722814053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c921dc3c6ce6dd6c7695db9be9f3f94/46341322623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13660eb3c5bb75027cce0218f5cb80ed/30560328811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/51987450896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161129114ca4fc---nonedixezitiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610961e0bb56b---pasebebuwovuzovebixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/lefugero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/372021931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83164d7a02c324f47e81f976783894a/salomosowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/gobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/wapatogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/6442628193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/11097090214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qs85u4blahlldf8t11tim3jj3/xotejivaxetaxani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=radioatividade+exercicios+resolvidos+meia+vida+pdfPDF 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_off0000e261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE261 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA73 21308 bytes
SHA-256: c432c6a320ab12eafd55e55c37535f5be2209dcd2744e9f038b65a694b37339c
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD3 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 96e7e9bb320907578eba6667efcd47298f8c67c7d14363916f9cdfa5fa62e883

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