Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec3cc807e299a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 47e607a3804f573587d894900831176d SHA-1: 899cf1b319699513e583f6f7017075c4cba0000a SHA-256: 5ec3cc807e299a6f7aa652bbbd184679b1a5d304c6bdb9cc716e1da772f660e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, pointing to potentially malicious content. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of hosting malicious files on compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075699439e27---88344021550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4j29jqbt4gji4gdl0lfdh35ep/26522669965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/53009188695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96289818485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/91008104877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/litifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/26616373640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a561b6a0---polav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0cd04e17ef15b1a860cd7599d89c1f2/39291485328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/55149794466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/10382199248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613250c4220f8---netiniwesadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zuramuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/ninak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odh8vjgc054tohq8279128rqqt/kavirakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfo81hd7n9dj9tc4oj55jh5ed3/34737427373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04818af9ee246591a9c8288cc73ed3f9/fumoruladisafewemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/86796789788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f2a24b788---33797198628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/sazisawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/tebawiwiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/bakenotixilunefivikurafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/somejazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ca0359de5d---65269831391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021061805262373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac37138681---36955855714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+nouns+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000bd46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD46 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 59bfaf5f345b218263eb4b62d14bf495c73a3352232dfec17163e1f4c5708411
font_01_sfnt_off0000e758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6F 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9fdce734e7096ee7e2ff1411e97904710b13abff67e534569353508e6b4732