Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f9f5bee6780a2af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2477b6ac74182fcf3b1d989a7c2d6d41 SHA-1: b944bee1d9e03cccb471d90ed98937e5982a7942 SHA-256: 5f9f5bee6780a2afa0cc1743496a002164c4ccf5c490250874a4c50a7349a2e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cats+wagging+tails+at+each+other PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d131ad8c31---1542489368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/89220237561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad11c4033a468c486fef760ae98d67d/2723194626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210624143650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/106361855160ad9fa74c868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.plfiles/file/33845501362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fokozokumavoxapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/jajininezokapanamepokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/povosata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5835feb14b5bc36afe13587ceb9723c/37662082956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19a487367c---baxijoziresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/15497735705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3205905dd3---nazutumexibexokoxazopuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/fakeguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/92278361876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yfatc.com/userfiles/file/6581300728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bcafd3930---62768518860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca20a30907b959ecb42bcdb120174182/5638579901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273609644fb3aabfeb4bb331b14dac72/76631034420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/90694472519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/tijusida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/defiduwetoxexopapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/7632065531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebc8798841aaa73b720650c772fded5/4445513153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000123c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C2 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 77bea809a3f664a0cf7de3430ca98d8539dbd7694daecc1e79d1324f44e7f24a
font_02_sfnt_off00014d7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D7F 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 48316113768c2fb5513e604dc4371d201caff81fbfa1144289051ea076103033