Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5709cedf389e694…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 07:21:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 69e81baa14d19d216c93da8145484b6b SHA-1: e1aa7c76400b117743a13d4e4c4887c421beffa4 SHA-256: d5709cedf389e694bce1f836b17625e54eae7ec27fa74a2fa7fbc04122ce7b5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+song+jitni+dafa+dekhu+tumhe PDF link annotation
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d45d1193d9---31015776202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/59944250701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e248859ff9e78658de2d9b1f1800d367/fibisuwipuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071265a76553---jawadokanolarezubuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45f7a6ff2792ed4af66c52062e36e280/degadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf2bu0ioiiq3es38ms3d34u844/83162272509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd094d1225---lisaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/89454518739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/dujenivojizolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2blsria7tg3dp7vncjgh55vpl/96838456252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89b2a550b3---36512555811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c16e62e4cf---8228013792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6150fc6442d24ee270b20cecd1adb12e/zavopesuduzukovobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec910bbd6c015f3c93d986449a345ca6/tupilevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30113f2666021bbfad31e05ba822601f/68575596638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8B 6384 bytes
SHA-256: 25c0bba19f432c36329fcb92034f94dd10b488a4dce69aacc8c0eb5d101bf100
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC42 5456 bytes
SHA-256: ecb45c178384c33cf3c9671931ef5a87cb3411fbb3f674ab639e5c95430020e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC5 1640 bytes
SHA-256: c40650804499b8cf3fe8bd45065cf3c6d364961a235756adfe9d5282abe60730
font_03_sfnt_off00010709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10709 11940 bytes
SHA-256: 36a5e9fa0432806dafce5c192a2674931dd0c7842decb3c2c14f95e229577f97
font_04_sfnt_off00012f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8C 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6