Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7a54ec3569bfd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-15 02:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a94a946526bb41973a64b63ac1e9082e SHA-1: ed86829aada62068eb7d1527929822b53c941d31 SHA-256: 5e7a54ec3569bfd7a1049fdc388fa9eced3bb0db7d93ec9111bbce66c4c18a32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/kaguzifomagejifubasugule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0dc52f82---watulakiwiwodoniniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9af55c4b94d6adfcb236376f9249e327/jilulitedaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/rinutubenipuxoxovetiduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/63119224107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/21672332034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq439a24ulnm7l1lrfvkkmbq8i/9252796347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c8a7006087f7a9234002e7ab8878486/93662949551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/513625758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0bd0e9193---20705825211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec977bf1d2---togupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210808/0348232888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da5dead42c---5515405315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fddb06702---zewinipivoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/dedenafelamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/6441126506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarkhigh72.com/clients/3/34/34275c7d49a174b5f6cf03bf5966da6c/File/76033205792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/jipanisekowusapibifivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/65974464579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/wegewabaxopater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/2171782030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f09b384fc6c46f26a191de160feb8b66/6783531991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/98236802962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/94936693889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/fudadojudefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+a+stihl+ms311+costPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E8 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 0491ab1f9781984131449868ed95f15036bddabad70a51597ae233fa8bdf08d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF810 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 165bb491ee942f2fd4092f405cbb85bc811abac70b2d70dfabd332007ca56db7
font_02_sfnt_off00011131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11131 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 50bdd287241fe81ffa177ab225d05183ae337e48a1a1852fdcf0f779cc5cef55
font_03_sfnt_off00013fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1