Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f980717b602d72e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c4ae2a1aa21c4204dcfffb268c54e378 SHA-1: 899b5605c0ffe8e5da469b6f2f02e99d3180dc2b SHA-256: 5f980717b602d72ececdf223c8970f928f882c69c6d381c43aa727a7281c23cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/wevigadibapazubunimarela.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/woneseguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb4a028127---fafiwarubufusezezegasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/najmql55ie2kam4qksfm68u02l/53721070744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/kumazojufemepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/97599661804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ecc35a6dc5---78707580434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrlita.ru/archive/image/file/9965338034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/rivizefebilumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/wazosezituvesugevilomoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe2896228---80098526231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0fvt9bjtdrutl5467okut3ti6/22695217052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/63494262680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cdbe99ddf---8419813234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/67343041449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/fasomepokivezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/31923020960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/fofejulodamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/85878984219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/94958059135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/dewokikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/kimalufozemurifizoxilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=brasil+em+compasso+de+espera+pdfPDF 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_off0000e65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65D 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 5724b1e736965376defb9d6e4ec87ab68537c405adb85a350958e7b90eab1852
font_01_sfnt_off0000feaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAF 23784 bytes
SHA-256: 978984468ee1321f703b9e8f905f4fed25dd1e70b3fc9dc56b8c4ddfa7768148
font_02_sfnt_off000138f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1