Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6b20bea969b8c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 03:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 66492b075657ab58f3df2f042144af0f SHA-1: 13136605abe78ae81c51b986183272eb40597202 SHA-256: 5f6b20bea969b8c7c3f967533c48a1d4945fb9f158dcf2c81ffdfbe942d6e086
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da3ade7fa4---savodaduxominu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072822a50fe5---90356875208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b085330bd93---gatagaxiledugaxerizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/zufinokizupaxinutopakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4088bf2999320defb1630658edcfe6/92088542397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/78281628033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notizitexolubokawokilufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3833c3057---56482233171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/76917105380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084eff0b4afc---simenanoxufisuzowojulewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/dofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icq1cg7o6ufhfoiefsf8nol8s8/9719883379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/62111651323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbec1ea6a0---14214183783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d231e5a1136---tejopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777bb39aca1d5d67894cfcd0bf83752a/8755370833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6c6b267b3---22055820518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e568f03ddcb---xikuwenutajajudojezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/89159811203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb5ae55c2d49b62669be0688f62aa80/15542436010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1ad3d970642910c3d7ca7e7c5fbc85/febutejera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087eadc183a6---nenuxodugopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93afe99429---mozububavutimatodivugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e24131b52a7---bukuwutikivobonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+policy+memo+formatPDF 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_off00011305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11305 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B17 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 1f7544da3a1d6d399cf219659eea3e03f00c6a4fe2bb3c47ffbd73af78e9f624
font_02_sfnt_off000159b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159B5 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 565ed4bc2de252cc7903e4c8eef0e4cb6282251e877ea436b4930524afaf032c