Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f628ca4e8023297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4d95964ebf46461d01120b2ec3a66179 SHA-1: f3d4b464e7dfd8b4255a303403983ab12ef0f959 SHA-256: 5f628ca4e8023297105b3d6403579c42c607226adea46cbb5bd3f46572f28251
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings confirm the malicious nature of the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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=from+fpdf+import+fpdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f47ac3e09---84094234974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb71e8003d3---50354561801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/fexufarevukomupizezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imcdnuqa99j700ol6acl4kb509/51400910521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28591594e4---fekilixosogikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/92544440325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rid5garffpqla2l9p0jsnrl2s8/mijoxamaxegatobonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609249a3e2f91---24802076702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23319686690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f479a1abaf47ad2a5497fc078490dd97/40535409233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xulefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3361f9d3af1f390261e452750952657e/budidevavogixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70d010f4b559816f9fbd1353156a78ea/powebubepavusoluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltdu79sfcqjqegctden5lmjsa6/27078938608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12b802b12db73dd18cb477ed3fb27f3/70958264360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55b3d19b2c---geboguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608270d54ffed---74085179867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/gimunuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1dc446535---perirefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43c761ed4d---womidetitaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608320f19fafd---muxixitinamujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fa370987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/80666007989.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B1 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 57142dcdb2c214868fd10eccc2ccf372eb8e2fa80782b85ac2a9564745d81da3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D9 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd342d0a797e555a3624249a86f4e4ba3f681cde857f6a8035bd41e7bbc0af3
font_02_sfnt_off0001276f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013f7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7C 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 28c5bcedffb0f63c0f18ed07264126f7c833899b916de9a351f9850be7cb6bae