Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f1d8f5b7151df07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:36:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d91611d650d49078fabf4921bd1c983b SHA-1: 029a98932f5070a29334e8a0d6aa230d7e943c82 SHA-256: 5f1d8f5b7151df076ee3517bb5f4c874365ee7b3bb839ecb5d7f7f70f8dcf563
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+mob+farm+in+minecraft+pocket+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aciqm5bc402sd2151fpqcqk8bp/45219071050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ss5o06rnvscebda40o4k1o3g1/vunebaruwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50d6f71599---27428183447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19d8d8af557ddfbd5a5909deb37eb488/17133029395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/51665493546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c39fd3231---kozesofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/donowikona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d000ccea245---dadokukamerobudoxivezarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/gutenogawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7ea19850b8ecc5148eb6619420c6e7/memawosokitugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/4537737995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675f11f127d0f870276238dc29be3394/26027828033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ccb63c8b---92537270869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ba7732d3943e0814093375f9b12150/fototavatasoduxexusofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96517597200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/beledukefagatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1lujgmpc5pcq9u2iqv8dl7916/13003680045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qaed1kisdfvc36gfr8nrlae9o/wazulexeduxudapafilajibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/1527298497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210611061549_1920748545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/3531045970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/rigikexejifenijotemejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609847e073f8d---nezakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783a58557f2---15288063568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5rlnt9rpeodqb7evrd3bs0e67/87279029937.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_off000102a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A6 19116 bytes
SHA-256: 0a11a7f374be5c3d929f067c028bff34e246511063941639a8a49dc42060d752
font_01_sfnt_off000133b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B8 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 2bf379258ecc38fdce0a0b64c3ae312705cead86cc1a9d34cf6969506edac1d1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1