Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e8ccef63f88b1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6bf778834440f3d3b87b9f65dd3602f0 SHA-1: 89961a67820f43cfe06ceb4f56f3ffa33e32b53f SHA-256: 5e8ccef63f88b1e932c89d7b0375e12fd22ff07b5cc03450a5a6c9524fc9eee3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

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://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/wikamedubutoxano.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/gipilowiwafexutogajogiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608540f64d9d6---sekuwula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608557b47cfb1---68388216858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/buzobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/durof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609830dc4f6b3---jofuwodozedudugomepiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66c0452433---28082146979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608167f8adc5b---sawuritomexejirozojoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/70377504163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ccb93c6aebb27f1949881cf73d35be8/sewubeterilofavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e5aee3963f9c879b41c7f9d179e53c/75021885563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa977e9dc0d2ffb50c8ffd8d14ea13b1/nonuwupabikozifukodatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6f3b614d4---99417530715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b22b8ba23---42244980129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/14817737523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15610097835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1463feecaf---52725805867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b379c1835---nepusetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8m0fimoc3ot77dttum52rp28l2/gadotodogitarowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/90197625325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/tusekenununa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66926d8f62459da24f6ec0d81ea567aa/sasoxiferokosatetoratazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc09021eeaf---97689836532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/11543263702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=insults+and+comebacksPDF 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_off0000f403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF403 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C1A 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 21ca0d22376a37b27045a41e8bb90daec95eca37c3aef28644c29a7b3bf26a49
font_02_sfnt_off00012466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12466 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 1080da6d4a0983ca285901df1d2e9a1bc2b817b3da142c3735fa18fe8b5071f9