Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f0518ea6b2ede26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 00:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5f0098be93eabb14303735d989d0c287 SHA-1: 0848ef8b348422c11417dd2304ae92162deee9b7 SHA-256: 5f0518ea6b2ede260c5760d7356657ecbca96fc6d4efc1382924e9eba56f8816
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to various compromised WordPress sites, likely to host malicious files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a license key for internet download manager, aiming to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=license+key+internet+download+manager PDF link annotation
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c951472d1f4---81733534605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c19a8da787---48048854806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c959163d57---18050521450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779b9315678---3840024566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11af7affbe---83036131270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/77020845375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/losc2mhoucd364t615v9skj7p0/fexawedubepatipavazemogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/23680279663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984c151b239---71614849510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893e1d35640---48291533172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f7ccb1b2f6dea9578240f649357b8a/vufinexazegibidogomijawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/wagalipusikuwini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985a6125756---relikonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/fadutarovuxirabako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609306d257206---1899458719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005d81b6606418448143c3d79bdecaaf/julamutosikururesaliwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/7704144365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h40onv275il5r0nhuj9lkmrv6/zarisakanenabaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F5 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 6ccd41e7e6e8dc471dbbf3c11ae453626416588e172a061db5a79c44db86786b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF791 10988 bytes
SHA-256: b99b92a98f38667d9103944cb37b789ce584fd53d504de436209e8837b630087