Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5689890c5909ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:28:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9a51510c25c5abf3cad58559e772b3e3 SHA-1: e416b91d0aa46b9e7eef7bf6e54aa2cccb521ec3 SHA-256: cd5689890c5909efa535910e1b53688ae3c9fc25f2157e20791548f9c658605f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a multi-stage attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/10804687098.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce96bc24d2---16318216723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4e0a86045---85549272538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7802213c14---jifuremujimogabava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b8e4c22f0---4902847909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/91825584411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/tugobokedenafagivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84607ba826---rivoxezesuwolariku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/zowokapudavivajitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a274819b4c---zofifadenasose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a3303bf57---55561311517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0cc4b72da---suparoramaderovalixijodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/xumoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dcdbba18f---3801013164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb71cac3d1---65429306847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/85402087660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f85dd1218---bufisupajilewose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a756770b4c2---33285190705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/wutimijedeporojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/21007971045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809e5142265---xedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607947d82a3c4---pezepinolebexese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be19a8017f29d633d2cb9e27cae097e9/93385839952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/kerekevabipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b638ef7ff6c8a7125ccae3035832c069/80405889646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=names+for+up+northPDF 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_off0000fcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD0 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 6f8b52befd4c315595ceb395beab0c04aaeeed89599214f00356d21ed6ba1183
font_01_sfnt_off000114b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B4 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 1df3e24692b47dfbe7f340f32e31fe1910d6ad05395d74e8d68cf4f2438f9ab6
font_02_sfnt_off00014130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1