Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ecb68060f4b4e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 78919d84d1ba5cf43d5c7a2e9c4eed79 SHA-1: 24e095d6b1ca0ef844f11b8b6bb096533cd5d55f SHA-256: 5ecb68060f4b4e75f52d2917cc366c673d688cdc6f2ccbac01a5e773151a0a7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or SEO-abused websites, rather than delivering a direct exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a860546c9b7---31665480411.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdfc2e77e9731a412d487e22de1a025b/26891698544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/zijalomagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimhaejazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/2573180503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b041f7e41ab---10223638971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52352b30bec9876e9a08acaa53178ca/tiveparezivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/zofudabunatemobakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab95087e45e---35205667503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/5902932183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/kuvolupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85322020102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/favolemulujuminibebajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/jamixofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/91578552058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/65186741470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a58360aea4a91d839c044e933a7b826/49190406958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/sitapixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810428266d0---74945226823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b36cc71b61---jezunojumexugulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9a6b22d327---tarita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s21jm6bkmrojqkr54sonv3b6l3/31716898371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210828_7AC4F0C37F2D581F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877109ae81f---12942991227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=concrete+technology+neville+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000c967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC967 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e17e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17E 11012 bytes
SHA-256: b857984e8f8a904c7d5c7cd8b4b8a492c26886c5463a80d75a7c75735b05d0f5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA98 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 18213139111ac87485a34766d977dc08c4a037c8c6273d7f0fc20e0458e80311