Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6d1668511ab825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 58aa0fde2094e3788dc93a8fc4aee938 SHA-1: 9c91e388e937f425e34f3466768fdd590c21673e SHA-256: 5f6d1668511ab82596cf4bb4f9510c2f37ee9336e66c2c46ac839f81f6fa52a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to lure users to external, potentially compromised, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb431dae459---67652237459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-30/20210530041344967986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b9263ab9f---teletonejavotobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/jatupugigidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcuei8i7f3i9qh9aq8ka4j1hp3/20153776141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0954ac818---fitimokobisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e1d8457d44c1ba23d72b76f96d54a1/xebefofajilipoxixululeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/2417792704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27ae0f17a4---ralosumalunagonamurelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/xevixuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4221aabdd---25760445233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608726d6cfc66---rovopefadenirovilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/vusomakafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b766868df57---88694755241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34595493634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/nivanoveteloviboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/zawezinaxulerejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8071e4ba4e386ece52b70ab92fafa35/witevapiginarino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe3b58511---dupiverudesofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/fipedazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd31a5ca2d7---pitenovatupalisosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65vbl8sejqo6a7b5bsijujg8i3/97755302146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efbb7026b2---zabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86e2e9e563ca85dbc2b71decf415009/32063452361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sia+audio+mp3+song+downloadPDF 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_off0000ebaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAF 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 863f0d88182a163b7ee4b22bc242454be68816ad3fae5b2079438a2f85139ef6
font_01_sfnt_off0001195c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195C 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 081d1691b893ed9257203221f66218bb7706d48408f21024056a41635d38c7dd
font_02_sfnt_off00013224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1