Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fd3386a5374086a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-08-29 05:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: adb30eb2c455dcf4f59e1e07905a1428 SHA-1: 8f502c51c7fb77389c1b24789aabe442a58b711c SHA-256: 5fd3386a5374086a5f51268dce362c7f9054e39a4ac48fcbefadb53ad1d08a5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=present+verb+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omu9p1pmpj5lkk2d4n3r1mpg55/81285311031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/41377550750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmychadla.eu/UserFiles/File/nolesixofeduvoxunutumofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f486ab6f18a6ce66d82f37789577aa/lajepudapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fcc821dd40---zozowugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/3829748187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/62980514455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75809201042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/14018558699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tl0ca93gqf3im1nn1m65948u5/ropexigixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/1745924273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe262db65c---6353571054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa18739f11---6641766488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/67103127883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnh2ui1ll7nsdj5h4haut943g5/4178900973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76606340fd4451c79083eb8e69f1c90/rejabagidanumajilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/70856289625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/lijinojuvixofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb2f3v58tbk7qa166ebhh2adc0/bijegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/93589667054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/29239933390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2ea39b3c---55349962977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/wadepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vejadasigadit.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_off0000d27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27B 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 65f7d4421f21525c59b4b1f4462a8f671acb625ee5a2a97d793adc5dd62374a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5F 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 0f3c2349381ad36c6b0c5040e53402af5589931eaef37f25490227ece25d536d
font_02_sfnt_off00011468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11468 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1