Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb14e8051603ccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:38:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 67aa350215fb0ea99b6181c324a25d28 SHA-1: 30e8c16f218b0f8561ae306df8465a857b2c4fe7 SHA-256: 5eb14e8051603ccfaddce316ba9f971d4678c43c6e5ab1cfda3ec81c65759841
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of multiple external URIs and the classification as a 'Phishing.Trojan' strongly support a malicious intent to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608678b0b394f---giduresofibidazipubebi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d4e2d34b5bcef6c83dc204e55bf4a7/vikeresuvumolivawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50946259017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/jenawagumomonofowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/62303833394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65bfc6f331---77534895225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/83734527952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/25742909174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64hqjvj0gv2nj663jbjgop6771/61200849076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608747dd4cacd---27806852161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek0bpvnctd216o3dih9pa9fd7o/27982506417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e389ba4f21bb09ee084e5482329a74e6/58756948044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg2mk3uatblk3pp6ftlahtmcv7/15987850251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fa38780508d296ce9e737e97ea7f5a/nopabolitodanaxamavedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/508128d00d9a5c86ba39c086cdcc6056/towogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4fcef9a0fafe1a6054376626e25a05b/9482245791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/dasezufepokozamunekumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k604kjsg2l58vrifmaa9dlp2r/72943454739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/mofumozuterinasirupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92d6bc4f62e5748fa0621c4a3d8eaae7/15415950617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6b4a07b66---28110779369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab12b4aa4d0---76538514919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/nuvudefuzudekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemavikefuremofeteturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=learning+game+ai+programming+with+lua+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_off0000f978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF978 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 9747fc8cea8aa9dbc0bb9298f782ea86dd4f25cb0120552874365b709cebd764
font_01_sfnt_off00012960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12960 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14177 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 45c9770b3afdf58b658c2518e0ae405da54229bd1e635ca682ad5b0e968af274