Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eea291eb5fc9022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a0b8e156eb9cc77142a12024572012ff SHA-1: 0d6d7f8eb6fa1fd89b57b1b32f6666129d1d8634 SHA-256: 5eea291eb5fc9022b94908db8e7735b49fd3b4ce04c867e1203a1d74be3b975e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external links, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, and a visual download button suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mini+mince+and+cheese+pies PDF link annotation
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609188949630c---8873731435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963b1b4254eee47a9fcd0412308aa25a/76834357789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66d943b381---31235317197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ef07e3e2d---11755525742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad44cc55b8---64858716528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/9088929189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomilano.eu/userfiles/files/tojezenesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/folawedasizerana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a842f9a9352---68859351124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2785934fb3e3839b69460fe643c83233/48881582780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59092618063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhnih7bnijcbc2j7umkd9fj6o7/kosanabumigeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59344581073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73062a84f7784db22a12778cd0e32f12/fupamapesufumolenugolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/wudududulusepakabajubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/su1dmog37ff4ofe7jf4c2am0c6/riwunexelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/lumiriritodurezomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/pidilerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7898eae3419a74423519254055ff8ce2/50818362311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22470090849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/74836684577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221a6b700848f7ac81f9a9d2131d2f23/fajuvozirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41a7578e35---dibedagimegozare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/suxujosaroza.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A6 17640 bytes
SHA-256: bb77cd13696455d8dc242f700dc659c40932224996b1065246afd208d7565d04
font_01_sfnt_off00012028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12028 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 2f19295737ba659d5b2c2c5e5ee26dab1e62e9012981c9806dcdbfc699a396ac
font_02_sfnt_off00013773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13773 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1