Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ffde7686d358436…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:09:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a1e61105b4881ae323070bcd22bf7c67 SHA-1: d0d02180b6a676d54e2f3f98a6987b8d0e9a3204 SHA-256: 5ffde7686d3584364c9c36ea3ecce8c2464590808bc1144efb9320bb1acec800
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage further indicates a malicious intent to distribute further payloads or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffdce3367817b86432832ef6d3c9dd56/36068860351.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3bb99de88ef0c88ba4b7003f518b21/pisanobogomixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b40e140e920b5cb3d283ee3e56f4e63/xedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0b3de8f77---59267825713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c91fe4f46---wovigonifixukoxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66dc4e7391---vipukegopigexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/77204454135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a67c6b3d3d863dbc1ac7c86ee2403f/63890296593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0afecf396---retujolilusoxivaritenamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74bc8795bf---zikakuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkj131ilhbrghaepfs91bnl8lt/mezovovipidopamozotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/55486757749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a049c808a89---99473504874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/220745287165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/70511601722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84cadaaa70---65778324971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lauoh1eqj8t1vvcpo8c0t2ib0/weditumelologetiwoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/46321141132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb01e08b133---12371597725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/fuzabamidekugafuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s54g3fkaj62kr30rf6a096mluj/63052277439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/82841986290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/poxefomopemakamepada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=jeremiah+29+11+meaningPDF 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_off0000e561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE561 10456 bytes
SHA-256: e9e6aa21293b1b73564fb7262fb71ea789ed2530d7fdc392d48e7d82ba8d9e57
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFD 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5ee1891ddf0e9b9b655995e981de423faa5f5b247aa9e5eea70e30badf7730
font_02_sfnt_off000127b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1