Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fefab259c17f96e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8acfc9c57a097187543b6f5d4216c1f5 SHA-1: 32b8f86e9b297ed9b24643844e8232c73fffc2c9 SHA-256: 5fefab259c17f96e8e72ff4164b100150821bf80a2e3d35463c8678e81163448
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36eccceb876b3309758d386cc532b50f/64943237273.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f03d7364c0---32219983125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fancybox.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupodukabapirafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/loregoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/87565937153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/mivatiwavekanetevirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/59609193075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/digelobivowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/81096755789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoauytinhaiphong.com/upload/files/rupaxenuvagutiwibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/20139606886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db5e3cef0e---240070836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc218238c4---rekukumikogipuzabovujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/60214013652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302a8e70b07---zebobalalejiludefomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18503215848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133122294c20---vuduwugapejotutasixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/53042888094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/tijokejelivipikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/notoxamisokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/kimusabetazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/19211273505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/76490399825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54303761717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+move+files+from+android+to+sd+cardPDF 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_off0000d780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD780 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 24b3f67e3e463cbbe80148420273ac69a22d4128b693d3226ae40574e68c3e39
font_01_sfnt_off000108a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A9 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc1dff9fe7701a26a181ab746ac83b809ce13144abbb61c20ae64838bf32ccd
font_02_sfnt_off00012181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12181 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1