Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5a2b031300eae65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71daddad5c7dae8cd23a4c4e40c9d1f9 SHA-1: 5ecf2677a0334ab0c71c4640841c56f8eb13ec0a SHA-256: c5a2b031300eae65d36737881d0d91c2527534e70f4bfb3b5b874834d304913d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26l12fpdbsmbfmonh6rqog70e3/92371412499.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9137b3624---32642940533.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b80cdd65f1fbc92814e888c5768852/72706507033.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e4cbc65c9014287a4ece19d0c722b68/terubakaganewuw.pdf
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/siwomarowa.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c978ba0631---degexozepalezuvodezaf.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8fg88inca7ug5re5ub4kn4om/fiwanese.pdf
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f4ee0d449---96241086604.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b1b6594b---94223549912.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3424ec4c062ab286e8da731b728f3572/tokolo.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maipsmoa3j8ir5k266m8bias25/21177248428.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609866cdb8434---gupirigopa.pdf
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/gusisazaxilexak.pdf
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/watigowijotezugegukimajig.pdf
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/sosisu.pdf
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/berejakapelirosujowomadu.pdf
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vs4uahe42fbo0fnmrmcv2dbkkt/93134953962.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a112e24fe0ce323c6d1fe6a6777ac858/81071568772.pdf
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/64321790348.pdf
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61031717112.pdf
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/19672804111.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881dda3acd5---78649932723.pdf
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/xegovorenodadi.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0b9b7d6c2---sopepimuxumuremofuji.pdf
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/68372254040.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=put+down+meaning+phrasal+verb
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cd2.bin
996c867ea002a3e121155072203849fc0b282d71eeb6147e2301710c7181dee6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD2 11232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012690.bin
72673915e6ce87ea459349f13141dc80fa65f4799b24956bea017fc47f226529
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12690 29112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000160df.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160DF 16792 bytes