Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec5c570579993ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:53:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8271fd5e6e89474b77a2de0de6b94c4f SHA-1: 60cd1035cae6a8ae699d003e6dbbeb0da4ca31f3 SHA-256: 5ec5c570579993ff3fe04fc51d145411a85ad2fb1b5c0ab5b52c47062af9d9d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the formcraft plugin's upload directory. These links are structured as a link farm, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a11948dd4---69578797584.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uduvho327fsio6th7vsjopi7b/radeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/10575554794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/51759981947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/16640862794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/57726591561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/mojevofovilebilagazunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9146cc21f8---87396162790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210705052245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/kusefejusopefovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce1a24cfbbdb097833d121ba4c945539/96558558593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa15ie0n46re08nionk19ad077/jikemisugidomebabetutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78cfd2412ed7fed2c892e9450289dbcd/dobekumado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/mixezojewewurezetomoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc445f2a73---56927663813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/60475103192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb8b2bfea05b1e55562772c4f015406/zamogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608638680140c---topoxuxosokubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/16510549181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555f9be6ec8062807c2025233855668b/sorugufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6utpgv33c6r8qffdf0qcrflqp5/19638968222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aed0462d76---20286675739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869d6c21693---96005043728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylerdaynursery.org/clients/8/8e/8ed7c4ff1d995b028c1180c1bccb3f4a/File/gunugugipatagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/53552777860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=proprietary+medical+definitionPDF 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_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc3000ef10536e50038a25e245dfa083c87677e390dac98fe03c753d1a23bae
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D7 10728 bytes
SHA-256: ee126e9fc864f685de75c28829ad4e82d5840ab4a7c52db749b8a50dcdd86454