Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec2fe4fa16900d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:10:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 80f80b18c409f75ec5ac86d5c2bbeb00 SHA-1: ba60c410e1ea07507b945da11624d656e4d699ce SHA-256: 5ec2fe4fa16900d568fe4714bae8aefd44c57e58f0f37b8a77bba4194f92f3d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures, but the heuristic findings of a 'link farm' and 'compromised CMS upload link' are strong indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9783

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://skupka54.ru/upload/m/xibigojofadivol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c30ec51469---25308620519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa256g4821lbh2be70dp1jo303/67427687579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aa5cc4853---51876436063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609684901504a---lowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/11532117080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b23e7b035---dubexemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6715605a81---9656867800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piecco.eu/upload/files/80117005219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/2211767251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/15520759175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rguh66kg6m6ve4i3n7mmj46sll/17936344277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/pagewegeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180795dc228f31e04a354b8a02fa3950/74470266637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021043003042671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0bad357291cdc63f5448d48c3e4a72/vojozekokapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/33479222034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/zugorudanuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/bumeganusekiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/nenowexiveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nofj0efim7o61qaodghvq1f89s/vusuditagonowaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4593d700a1d7333d45833a54ca5848e6/56954865177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a7c059d8e---39211195755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/6953749111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607221c6e22e8---zatemugamodoxejugutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+am+i+supposed+to+do+thatPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5709b2aa16b89b2bd95171bf587e6e15/tuzabumorudabaropalawanu.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_off0000d974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD974 17004 bytes
SHA-256: a15be6490a789f262dffcf33d9ef5fb1b8e1bdd93c7e35886bcf9081a5b70948
font_01_sfnt_off000105b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B2 1992 bytes
SHA-256: 13f1fe27df7b54a0b088b0a17b793eed74031531eb53e4428abf4a7960578a65
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000126dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DC 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4046eec592d4084fd5279895a0a11139ab8549e24328dbd92223091e55e454be