Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e773b53ec5f386c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee5b46c3832fe9bb1f6b26aafdf19d82 SHA-1: da70147645dcca4a77b7e5ee4489a5bd65adf38d SHA-256: 5e773b53ec5f386c2a18ba0a757429ce27f96b4bc5cad924e1b827f0f7c580c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristic analysis revealed that the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=changing+nouns+from+singular+to+plural PDF link annotation
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a798cb1139f---32351568614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/25899129707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb7070deb4---jazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/47944852986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ad50d9704bd689926013ad92ab108c/69568299856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/62021648734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/24778547206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/2209912342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/lagalabegadivewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd736cf411e55bf54faba2ef8c36569/74883847191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uh67faii9db90c4m48ecbhbet/87293693387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/18749008695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af54e3e1d9---fiwabavunobadumeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m249as7hcfi520p2cqg78t2pa/34781104121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/fefelililodovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3b2f22ad43925aa5283ef87a251e52/ledisafotowisigagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/52964074954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bi6q1tcl4j4ga8lncltlp0ftsv/bituzuvovapagade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d195dab8b2---75499167338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2c059dc80b9c371e06fd19f29ceac2/poreguwifutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ecnugqvaba0c7evr0a3lgbcu7/duvoxepavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d753d6a06d---42635234315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921b6424f02---kukirige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abafb2b6c8c---16748036315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/kobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000103d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D9 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8ab14ffe30144e431f0ba42561efc2a82073905d24dc6e9ae589435adf848f
font_01_sfnt_off00011c8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8C 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 8a1c42d60555670c18ecf5b67406a06aca03ee4c8e4dec3a524b8ff3778ad953
font_02_sfnt_off00014914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14914 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1