Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f391cd56ce9d4fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ad2a1c6756b055fd8d8008358378c7d9 SHA-1: f69dc919fed72ac5d69f3fe953f8bfd65260749f SHA-256: 5f391cd56ce9d4fe61fab4a77e4e0e91da5694b25c680c10650cea8173e45d66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9788

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://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/dexefilupafovejapijidetel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iqlacpro.vn/emotive/upload/files/68056275834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202107file/2021072708083170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/94838016181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4b0eb5d4e---27448976255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lk761fpg8pp996flm1e5v6eh1/gesovinavulobofogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c6616b6b2800d6a94c59f57e5d252a9/vixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee34fd46dbc---rarojusegeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/talixinufawomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/fedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6a507643e---48284908291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f071ea619f2ac9839139a39a5f0fd95b/wumefugokunarexapuvuvini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/77244688058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607050087aceb---jifodekajudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmmb8h12ucj8h1d0e3e0901gb1/pufepobofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veguburawidosuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/koxukelubodono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5065f55e08c9359714c2afe3d3800223/tedazamibadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607650e85c2e7---nodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e549ea14db7---jarosobepepavafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4065c8786a6af92ae14fb15d0ac39a5d/logotireja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/wuvudorapupiludegufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezevejitalibibinumewewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210809_224253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403caee88a697bafd2922bf52d9b536c/55547354769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608835d706bcb---rosevefuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/78347696802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=concepto+de+derecho+natural+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0001a133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A133 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 27a9197dfd75fa4ef8f081589fdb228c996cbca860ee24d1f3604e8971a85a6e
font_01_sfnt_off0001b948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B948 20840 bytes
SHA-256: f398813dea1197d40225551997e7d905070fc44f3b9300f2bd0d72daf323015b
font_02_sfnt_off0001edd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EDD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1