Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5933ca42ccc7440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 644b48204d5f43796661026d2d15ee52 SHA-1: fea4104eb15fc08b6fae49788b07719f097b0780 SHA-256: c5933ca42ccc74403b033c764b919e1ae2904cb12de19c97e69dc86d3fb64b1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on compromised WordPress sites, likely to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5488a3da95a9025e7adf18317402547/30486024769.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/resugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa5759dae2b73e6be17903280e22701/94792853102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3321bb170b377e2720cffbb3bb672c31/66553206011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987701231ed---dikomuxajetevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8n51mt8fe7ic9jvcvvo0164896/64586049133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/16531233327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/23456986130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9399001710d387798349cab6e6465d/xotusitaritelejigoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7428c0618b---93619943853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/73148305988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/beridolijaleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26140968218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9adb53fe23aaaf8ae10294f8533a348e/18909922079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cu0eiqq8qlbhrnv04jejt3gom/85518680354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/relopodivepazefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c320712559---41404338308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu0tu919uppb49o89q0p5htq00/vilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc45f0297---91891017112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928e22a84d1---30586946268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/wagovabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=while+if+else+javaPDF 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_off0001394e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1394E 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7e83df81a51b3275e7bfdbfa30fb855d0eac8dd5c21522c6b8421e1a3550d2
font_01_sfnt_off0001669f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1669F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17EB6 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 1b9b3f4d41311e31bc2fdca1f811fc7c2b591491a260ac6e84789f6ba1b14fef