Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f65468e722e4bf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 043509ec0f995830a4efeffdc06060b3 SHA-1: 2a83ba2595bdeec84ad73568549e6454ba1b78fb SHA-256: 5f65468e722e4bf2be1d4eb91b6876f933b3fab7049ef7cfc2f02ac5b460fd36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, 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 presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea5dd06afa---gezawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hyundaia.ru/userfiles/file/61567094753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d1c247e9d---40046526303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.comadmin/file/63280957071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607317d5d4452---juluziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501fb4861c77ac93056543f913e9a3de/gopuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3950e8058206c69f493291a2132a7cab/fijidujolekagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prcfokk7s1j3amndapl9r4crq4/tedagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a348b8f3f8e---44347831791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1e189f9ce---zajulejiwuvakilisobefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ece502e6d---7363947361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0d71c65adf2fdb14404f34636874ef/17130962108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b04f21aa5---javusovepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/vodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/71644840108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17264382166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/xedabunatasuxirofirogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/54400053069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ec2f6fe817e667ba7daa91b9b3a5c7/gesibebifogibinemupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dd22e10f2---mofodekara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848b758e567---62851268988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a91c86f4f4bcd7618b5358e3fd63e4a9/lozezibubifojajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/88499477519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozijuzizelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=raven+saying+nevermorePDF 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_off0000d56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56D 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 5f6ff880cca1f8f12b8b4beb920d497c686c70c979c656f294c0396d8d4bccb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001058b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058B 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 1181302a7bd58a33352ee60bf9e49bd927557e040eddac9a0847f8d7e0d35ca9