Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb34187f0e83e72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9b37ea9d5189125d2555c0c4af89d349 SHA-1: 04691d3cfb97f6ab9951addcf1b074ed9d88afc5 SHA-256: 5eb34187f0e83e7209ba536a1e1e6b4b412f6177bd23c52d482baec7e6d081bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics as a link farm. These links likely serve as a redirection mechanism to deliver malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac4027903b2669770a4f0ea771195c2/79664419922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bim064ol928tcf5s81g8pv073b/9678568026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/kanesosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ae0454fb9---wuxevewepori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtr6ifbglvav3busdev4d9ib5a/99803179815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49984ab9bfc7b833fdec22abbd8d32a/79157709989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/wexozujobubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761fe6cf69c---24720391948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfcad66d7ee59f591cae43b6f0c78fe/51199564184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/30803844667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/23666759001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/33115535538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/tavodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwaxezesube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pexeruxujevasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bc2302d24---58698816726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3d1dd09b1---xibevekamepitadeparelekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9275522-travel.com/userfiles/file/10620286465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_63AEDDAE90C561D8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210817023011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f6296e21b---87531508010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/keboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/60fcb3f952730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/364432074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=simplified+systematic+layout+planning+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_off0000cbe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE1 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 5aef5d93cbf2f7ec2ee3ff2c54c04006099faf91de2e4dcd237b3437964fc0e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E7 11152 bytes
SHA-256: f04f32a4c36fae105360231137829ad5483c1865a7bc533f46ef2216a66d2b59
font_02_sfnt_off000112ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1