Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b8d080382701b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d391b65e49f871537d4adc0d480318e4 SHA-1: 468713853f75ba82e4179532128c9b52998d5b33 SHA-256: c5b8d080382701b967161681bb082e22fbe25046a7bd4f5703d761aa392a8bd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr84hl9s7bmehokm53fsm2pb55/53410907688.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723bc8d8fe1---42079781335.pdf
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767a315eacd---zozelebodudipanima.pdf
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ca65e76ac6818e21edd0f2b5528411/pujod.pdf
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/59088726109.pdf
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/pipowizonol.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b36a522b03---9057471121.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/67252946983.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebaad83a23---jujow.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c859f18eebd---56100591577.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b5ea6f36d---74392805746.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910afaa7b9c---66314285274.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0bd2803ef---jifixugu.pdf
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019c9dcf89d79a9f2cf39e031aca4988/nikoxetedugiwajasi.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkf9k1049qks7j70mfskb89v61/61726394155.pdf
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/wawawupikibames.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flj9l63j86huvd7emejlt27ed1/30066962581.pdf
    • http://czapla-dachy.pl/public/images/fck/file/zesasowerojivomox.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d961592d817250cf4f8a2e4a289ed6f6/66124493065.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/269a1cd9941d8787d9bb0a48188329d9/zunumadelemuxafasixuxemo.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a032e0cbc43b992efa05428a5fe3ec6/foxowoxeketigozelo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+eat+kale+everyday
    • 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_off0000f7dc.bin
ba848586fbc53e1ba8cb0fb7f2618abbccd4e72ff85ea23f3b095066899523eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DC 10384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f92.bin
cd59fbd2b0018bfe8a4f7830b0ad91712361531cff7d91a21faf4a6d426c155a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F92 17068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b47.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B47 16792 bytes