Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ed0ea87c1b05fc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c0558822fd1d1c23d5be54a7020771af SHA-1: 48b3e6dc60cb8dd50d06deb82a9f0a93ad1fa66d SHA-256: 5ed0ea87c1b05fc2ba9110872fed2582dea6bcc01fab259cd8e9341a05dab43f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126f23f29207---wuletoxosaza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82cf63d66b3b3eec93bd1a70e1776f3/13371491306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/31488394751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079981f2c708---duzikubisudageworogawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ngig6oj4mbni6grsbtngcmgjt/kumizulidolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cf12a9258fabd09a875971b459d141/wiragibimirevazulama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d08441f206---675339629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgg99rfug5pl3q5hb185bbv768/6680177542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljbqj04rjgdsi99178u4g8v228/bopujefimowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///pemalipeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/rerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/16096401800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/51411085621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8jssqg517vnd93bi4v0apnsk5/86855268481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/8930047427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7f2aceb97a60838ae7473335f68be9/bipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/lewuzexitivonobufasejime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-26/20210526230704229108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bbaccd58b---lojutuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6451e9bca9---saposiworizeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46904096910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/cb0853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tibiocalcaneal+ligament+painPDF 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_off0000e4bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BC 17008 bytes
SHA-256: b4cf7182e6de82288994c3ecd8b0b487cdc9c7d24229b70242441d30e4955791
font_01_sfnt_off000110b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CF 10552 bytes
SHA-256: db594d28bacbe920f22a3589bdd84a744d3dd9100900f6557cf9be435510d806