Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fae3da6aae2b952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 486f7cecd60be516c20a58d15863ab63 SHA-1: 8017d4c2d4582ee67e7611c4a3f0f63efbd85e3b SHA-256: 5fae3da6aae2b952544fdd63bbf36b9d03f5969adf4884c85dbbe534f42e7ab7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing lure or a downloader for further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=finite+element+method+ansys
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/7282748670.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608760dd0db24---26434374019.pdf
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad2b9420cbb98820979e0588476fe02/sapulapisa.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07f146e69a26b0db7aa677787123e7b8/65447849724.pdf
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/buvonavofosok.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e2b019720---95548179708.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788643b7b87---niridikiwij.pdf
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/wisavovogewatibeduworo.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqi1hdlngqr7un82pc62g8vabr/61134943638.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86635a5cc2---luzodojebawukiginozegim.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ab2c9f5820222e637873b5a11ba52c/62075762800.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca326eafa2---87546621621.pdf
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zokadevubolunorawu.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb3a69915c---81038492169.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9814237e7c70b50b0a9896bbdf8e8c5a/50601633994.pdf
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/fosuvixijexumasula.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203c2421fe2e08a9e913dc06e623c9d8/desipogejurenesimaka.pdf
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/18321636300.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792f2ab06a3---78016133605.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088610a50020---70654173523.pdf
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/64133822132.pdf
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/88247075106.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f3ccaa2cfcd4c17044b8b2e60cebea/xopuf.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb1666f0ab---palasedati.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/10473072024.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210607143349206.pdf
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/lexaweba.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4ef.bin
b81cfd1d38a45b82b26a1473aefe0a4b3415da574977b565a3ae27378fcf572c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EF 10504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9f.bin
3964cc3556751284ad69aa1b183c42b352eb847c948481d9271cd7c7d42361a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9F 17316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013906.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13906 16792 bytes