Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7acf0a73b0b962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 15:04:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c16878b5494c837c67b5f314fd5df8af SHA-1: 0ba8b84c1f583cb042a1c4f919e29f7e5ba0f7a5 SHA-256: 5e7acf0a73b0b962d7dec2ac6116ed695854045075e93dea75535b6845c96ebe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is the attack vector.

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 http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/33055142384.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc596305c769e23bf14a719af36f591b/72199932194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75686dd556---87123063005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d7d06067a70686c2e4462e64604e9d/raloxazibalexefejesuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086eedfd530e---93482609757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/4966550352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36796373559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/dufimiwawirewinuvomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/99369653979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779708b8875---91622478182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947b16dab76---95718490303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/rivanituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dafc469b9---97250264562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/tolakawesurorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/saboziwifevubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caeaad1cd1c---19841771906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/daruwizodirijikaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c249c18d78e25a407b51f36da8b01f7b/guzekaluvenosemewedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806a7e68245---mudigavokoguloxugeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/71599354038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcc7dd1f42---porovisorarigife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/tatuluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kerijetama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=diction+in+english+languagePDF 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_off00010068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10068 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001187a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187A 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 21e40fe8f827604520d8cf782d1426e7e0fcd3bbff3f3844dc20f5e83c19d810
font_02_sfnt_off00014569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14569 10508 bytes
SHA-256: fe4540da3670aa86d6e4bcd0652073a5093b3b08d76db8adc5ebaff4244a55ee