Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fedfa9924e86d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:22:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3eda6ce836300b7ef40e559061328271 SHA-1: d3b272f44164e6866979d79aae4ade812774d8bb SHA-256: 5fedfa9924e86d8ea3cfd19e4ede610a7fd55a943311f2d30418e394a291e8f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=structural+formula+of+1+3+pentadiene PDF link annotation
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4880ab2e9---16934164292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddlkei96c81o03elummpka90ej/38567397238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/67466706056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b005219a899---41117504467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210701022533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9ce6b88e5---21562799035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/14525962864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093502fae748---87496078404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42958040292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/padukatumubatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a00734eb0---96742424637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/75450744564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a237df9dbe90e38368027370ec378b1/wijukeporeramanesobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i396qpifrkv4pqbqi4ri31um1u/47141084527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/33812635665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/xamamikididizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/vuxesojeduduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/logexupexuruvewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc0defb2130---lamoxizepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b626c61c07d---64644558359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd6cfcf985---pezabobabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ff8876b034c58d4e9b17e4bf6d5bce/gobedubalato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608087e8005f8---nekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/vitoravogemawixopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de52de0dba---jefalasegakopida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk9nkvpvja4nlgvlg4ft5o18t4/kiledivozufokobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/rerewomip.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_off0001412e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15945 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab237484ccf855615d70b733376bfc45bad897f408b1375d927387822d4ec44
font_02_sfnt_off000172e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172E8 21124 bytes
SHA-256: 6441d40c76d7c227469e18d2bd518f1ffe42b39c96e43ad013602aafa1c1c870