Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5efc9c6f4adb3860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 08:15:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1fcf7185a06188c50f8a8486bf33ef66 SHA-1: 4854b093cd5b29f7be79f5c6dfd21f247f7f4519 SHA-256: 5efc9c6f4adb3860d78a4e24770ff4f29ec7fe90a581a4091e8d2932a46e9819
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+amps+to+mig+weld+10mm+steel PDF link annotation
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69852d8a9eb3bf2c171f570494e37c86/99279606462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/95986164873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/fulonabosarijukuwoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/xivisuwozitope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am6nipf5di0lqc4gofthmam72e/61286999522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87a54728aa---bamukakitikofejewugemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210622054712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368ce4bb43d3e80ffe0a581439de3966/49262073118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/80325715438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/71470853653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070db301b8bf---limimarizazazipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/zoxunewixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1028c98df49c5628956b77455992ac6e/zozejizero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/ridonikezikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f41651dc8fe9cc2e6a461e1798af66b5/67461444583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/nipozidipirorapabusufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585eb6c5a7d92a106b182725130fe8da/bafilorowibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371e42427c7f96a6b30f9e7eb2c1a39f/puvuzonelurobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/jowarujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b655bd2a9a54c20045d06f47df4c8d/zebagonajanewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/vuletesezulelonebijofiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/94457311242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/68935154250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60982d9b1c---segox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/kulubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1026e090a04bfc271d1ef60f055d9873/51505413421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/25993008453.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_off0000f481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF481 16452 bytes
SHA-256: f8f9df092389d28d4fd7fa71327b5886df1472f0467196b0d1706075fdda1b20
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001370f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1370F 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 6d3cf0b521222f64b2c93179a9d3f4d415c3b0930c2fdcdc166d2105dc3659ac