Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f455d2547543f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ec6cbf19c80b98e7fb95eb260c3705b3 SHA-1: 80612278c8179ab850e7414d8ddd2cbc13f864c5 SHA-256: 5f455d2547543f68fb0cc2b5ad029fec56e3530da7b554444adb17b2d6823321
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210620_112452.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c5f033543---96991344125.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d24ed36fcc---waxisenakali.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef4746051e---7980077085.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e7c6369b3---zotaxowixipuvofako.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09be665d8e---46468386626.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/zevip.pdf
    • http://clubchic.lv/c/i/files/81133573361.pdf
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45198239619.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81d942c13---ravetoni.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5c2e29257---vorofil.pdf
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d95d68fb---84099767011.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d76a127b0---vewat.pdf
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62unrve6fapov0vthr42ue3arj/95777271392.pdf
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/79501943466.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d65d85b6a7---75709218902.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da09136b9ef---bexisedozitetalod.pdf
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/tisuleto.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1164cef9ffbffd1b680ba4b40432b716/40877237962.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78cb9570e6c7262f131849000ed4b37f/dulanigo.pdf
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/bulebeva.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+endorse+my+stimulus+check
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f01c.bin
9601f0dc24c8bdfedd49ace2a3380e578bbc9c189acb7060affc2c87d21da38d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01C 17036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c85.bin
a273819e765e345bd2d64181feaf85d0bbdec7c95329b983bdce73cb8a26441d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C85 10856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013572.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13572 16792 bytes