Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6f175ceddb5a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-08-28 21:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 86a102e95505d4d22f9abd2544a6d24a SHA-1: bc652d0fccc2e8346cfc1bd914aae021d297d37e SHA-256: 5f6f175ceddb5a8e21c187fef999f86da335569cbd610bdea78f2982f8ba8ead
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link farm behavior and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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 https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m9bc0j29f38louqb4ka3dddd3/78414140959.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae361cd8a57---seluwomusirujotopisole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/30335541463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/gilazuzugevoxege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d58665202f4---29205943951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/42357703073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/komatinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/peramoxedopesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b2e184ac2f0bfa1ce0a3b930851c03b/9177070329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/rivubegivazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2b582ced0---vozagorawuzugofofusatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609188472a851---24527479156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/meziranamamotabavawusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a500434e414---xavusesitajelepuzedofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41658009881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i6n734oqfq6ueaorjufoj6s19/59720130955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b27803f428ddb277d34f237686d2f4/1164257743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/fusanamobagesoleluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77206417421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/47489923487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recit-de-vie.fr/userfiles/file/sonepuleragewiwumajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qak8qinnkag630kokl1gkis159/15787848353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/pepupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/jekiravakopiranukuziline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6nudglsq15ehe2v8u71n72tp/sepamujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/pexokama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/7491895666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pilonidal+cyst+and+sinusPDF 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_off0000c930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC930 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 582da693b431cac5584c969c5b7e7c06b6c33b0a8c2aeec00e84111c1a39646d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41D 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 3a3e98671c1a081eea5abc0d437cb93f1e7514c14fe2fd26935db6a8f3d28cb5
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1