Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5798cbe19200c82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 17:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9d6e93ab53f30440f7e2c5d6cfb632d4 SHA-1: e67081558410ce603d6c6a859fd9d3fbd5860905 SHA-256: b5798cbe19200c823430b4fca114a6afdf1c8050c2df2517b653390c70634462
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. This suggests a link farm or phishing campaign designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc3bv9k9hdftapt6ev06l2btu6/16952361888.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29252a327f20264fd9956480291e5fb8/radelusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1ae879334---18599910022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4f4a81806---gazesokoraxozevagowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480587abb35b8b70b7c343c581f5c162/karumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erfufceegmu27q82kti4v9g356/zotusijaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7c49020d3---38009482048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/44373667439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b2a7cc491---kazatotapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/20218642314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0362c849b---74466714102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab009508b11---73769335316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/82246849748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/23822339856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5cd3a3e6987a329ff86fe8d2a4a86e/47440928606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25bbd2e501---9837726541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcb0c58222---32465073641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608162ef46454---94070054123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekurolagajotoxojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7j6m13v4a259vvi4m97563gef/72751485829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcec65571f---vefumetigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8b5cc452b---xexelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27837455309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65103c9e4d---22898810282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=katy+perry+housePDF 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_off0000f798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF798 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 34d6d317000e9ac4b42e7353b6dafee2dfab724286c9504c93e4425a7b5b63fd
font_01_sfnt_off0001264d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264D 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 054cc648b1ea6af0dc3edd5b252f277bbb278130764a3dcbefb25cfef78dca84
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1