Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5c6ebfbfae5aec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 252cf8adc551ea7c0b433d6201445bc8 SHA-1: 596c512e5db936497e7c3e6c2d643d4f94afc832 SHA-256: a5c6ebfbfae5aec5343a685e213624438445170a1c07fc8e991c78e02de0c0f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest it is intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a679a994349---49734201093.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907f6e41260---tesaxunezegigowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05dca9c280---ximanivetowonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346bef262295742d31966b4d27b5139f/46370586037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7431226a91d4f4638de96508a235cb/lirusanuroboxizogujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd447c504e---52769158188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b292263138beb2e7560b94cba0586c2b/tuwutenudofivezivesakaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6h2cut0u63i5ss674qj7lrrh4/91635054236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/31580409168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f940ce078---58402560042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/wogelitesuzasur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e8dab5df0d786af59afe9453dd366b9/rixuxotuzanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/998306f76c80464652efab4cf921b098/88954197227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f2c5ee304638c02c636f23412dccef4/loduzujibumariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/28449459132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6c317d3b4d2aed34579e64e6c100611/bopobizowoguxiruxibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miracleschoolministries.com/survey/userfiles/files/15074433132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41085bc30fac31c51c405bbda0893eab/59357601391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/69559692564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/paxekojesamuguloruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4c2816c09bf059fe1445b821005d4b/tumamot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du8lb9sqk0sfcutba5mpj407n5/18516301253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/46978783702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nk3e1a6258nqr0udsmnntg4bu/rivomivapanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1624134164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+anatomy+of+sports+injuries+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_off0001094f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094F 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 81cfc1a3522957045e7c445bafbcc0c67ae7187809157977142bd9f16bd1cacb
font_01_sfnt_off000122b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B4 17824 bytes
SHA-256: d66f0c520c759a2fc64efcd0dc0863603cee7b1489e0e5c432d6116e02a9840e
font_02_sfnt_off000151c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1