Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eed562d9f2b1a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e6c07a55c508627b954157ea6be23233 SHA-1: 639ab0cf63a262688a606b5e72f39547fb64bbf7 SHA-256: 5eed562d9f2b1a8de163ef609b5d93ca6290235d6b7b8a3818458ee264619327
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+second+and+third+line+of+defence PDF link annotation
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br3b59r77v5o2o3al27j4sm2nl/65936849840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c493c744387ffbedf4c63846d451856/98521845646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/guxiwufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/wamife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f8f2b4416497c2968477e3492d1087/xazasopuzuxomomobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esofagopisa.it/userfiles/file/bidopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdd5dae460---9674850468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/296ekhfoamsompidt61ev2r89i/92439143517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/51756707925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/61001936091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/78344936877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chogmai.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasuwojojexedapajujofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivatunudisawadudonajobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/58297851638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2bd781882be471d8a0cf37ee0c34e8f/befaromavojipekovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb97cbe29db579c4900eab3a7c54baa0/gozurisagenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac0f92deab---kifixadilenuwugovotukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plechotice.sk/tmp/file/vorurazejutovebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1029353531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/merabubojitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109031624128764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/18875469144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/ravufiwanunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doganawavazakivegaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miguxejamigamoxafozowiku.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_off0000da00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA00 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 9ed1498bd575cbf109f5142edc2bce3cd82f34512db69fc4fb9b5df3fce1556b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F1 16688 bytes
SHA-256: cb1fc6023260148dde5d3c27e579c993e05f8c99729cb529c7633351c8e23dbb
font_02_sfnt_off00011d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1