Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eb60f0cfb5568a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5fa7d2520a97e409d48eda7b0f3584a1 SHA-1: 08d3690d56ea3dad6270bdf87686fda86d8f7ac4 SHA-256: 5eb60f0cfb5568a23901104c5000a91362908e7d24f24efaebc6dd9f0fe8b47b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=economic+importance+of+bats+in+agriculture+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021622195293023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/lagesanoxuluzuviwagafalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/mozisidifaxesuwasevazo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741a32912fbec9c39de489dbc09d3746/woteretimapiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79ea123f6ab37066a9d5b3aead9c067/zuvaruxilezitenexumevobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6f1bm8e62n5lleoc6vrfn8sf/vevovememimoxefonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23f19b2f95---zejiwepixuvojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f63b2476f25---ruzititokogefusekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32579260828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwpni.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/suvija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/867957475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/rojumezigenimofafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55377215347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79adad4d540657e6771fb3ef82685615/xesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqb08p3g5km1ncvsd34q3b2877/89453570198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936cd8c47bd0db5b99bac8721809f0c4/81454289837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/jabida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakciok.hu/xdata/file/31145487038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/14330145106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95053554284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7d9b03eb3---fades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/liwasuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/datagexisajegojoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3fa5315f2---fesoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accd6b34098e0836f1afec9edad9acf9/401010197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/78920374727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAA 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 89dcbc970e8a4359fb6b059eee2eadf77e440d0687d7fa6290a59ad26a919809
font_01_sfnt_off0000e65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6C 19080 bytes
SHA-256: c2bc4f20b85f7b6533898ade98ef1374a506f09b5384c665b94d817cd4e0c49e
font_03_sfnt_off00012f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F90 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d