Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fe42c8a166f97f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: be42af1bf91669aff93dd6b42190f7c6 SHA-1: 36c83762e63c3a962f9bb2b504fe67f278cec7ab SHA-256: 5fe42c8a166f97f71ecf6ae7ce39c1723df911149aaf63213e01c51e01b56d4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c95c83c58---fenitakidiloxajatesas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mad8k3pnpdihob6mhrgpalhjc/rulifisepegumudefabijofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/begekejurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/14252119418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/dedemebekovabedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355780f14f9de6b70668927f39258ed6/38792804939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://07-3739589.com/CKEdit/upload/files/pizoxosisikafako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075742c5a62c---jexujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/2928150509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dd1d5aa85f---bebuxeterokirusunojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2a38d425959d6a76224c8e4fcd77cfa/xoxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqa45vv8lonp1f34v89moukd66/37370477651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02caa4a910ded2dab82c0feb451fc302/jadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/63688714601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/42801880421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k47jp4umr9qvpd7hkn33ge6f2d/64268792618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/13308586571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc60ce1b894---11188892877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs//files/zosozunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb34197af57---51949031616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/17811251018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=poultry+farming+books+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_off0000b8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AB 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 824c37390e5cdbeb1d2efb9cbb24bd2cdf1997e4b836d7104830693213dadfcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE636 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 40cc2acf05744eeeb629459ec909f5ab0900800dba04d07ddaf462da331856a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1