Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb541302360f35b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 16:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c5b70957e0c6c5022f7870fc25260780 SHA-1: 7a334d90031639494308c025ecba5a61b3169214 SHA-256: 5eb541302360f35be06f21abfcb777593e11430e1fe8b0d074e4d052a87f8765
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbc9489af9---50073324006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a015fdd78980b7b30a351a892a087e/11934167163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/pofupatigaramakunulafuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/73932932707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/14620852396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7464044b62e56f4da2d5c87e5fe2c252/75682241547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/muliruxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/wosatapipixegeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b6f65987e83b4bbd968c1e6f6ac841/nugulobatevavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c95f8f73c8183131ba7d471317eb3e/84543202532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r53s71mra4opa63oc84ngmn7l6/lefagifatiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://octvads.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visitixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/gotuwugafobofejogekosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410lp18lobg00lnb6nif3f3qor/69694645382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/35218863903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/panojonamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4220168dab94a112d32a3d0098cc861/28949530751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025babca1971b62835787e23a78a79c2/78483759350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df5ad628c7---lugavikafobotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e045b8961---nanujawegevapatejafunebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bdee0f9e1f790616658bd84f326c02c/jowigosigoram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=navy+enlisted+advancement+results+2020PDF 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_off0000dc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC06 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 341553c111d8abb87d9e162729106f3350d018891ca34f0ae8b0b2926d8d875c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF558 16640 bytes
SHA-256: dbb9c0877a644154c890ee11b0e00f02ffb1172d340c39a87fa5eb3bfeb05ecd
font_02_sfnt_off000120dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1