Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5857f8a2dae4ba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 17:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e56fc48e49c6c890cd1b2023d8fba8e1 SHA-1: 6f6d1214a05a3128b543290c0c16a2db334c7cec SHA-256: d5857f8a2dae4ba8db0845e0c5af6873cf449b657aefdb14134e567080db7df6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The embedded URLs are likely part of this malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b1b8705f---41460541472.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f746eafb1---tixapuwimegudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/torodetulale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aclp2c9ep1ugbbohv2nhgngot/32179127684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0689e7a59---99248899925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39c3cbf546---tipulaxogovuxonova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f0aca242d8---jalodukagulatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/99951938826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fb02b1251---40273855706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/najudogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3vr84relg8vf2bb9bnf4nft2c/41424287767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/wimupovagoponok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60BA648FCB45B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/38309258940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vudanakanawerizazinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b5f58fe50822da0b9d7331b3ae57d7/88659913200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/423ea229eb26f5a649463ac31a2f049f/libonokumite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/melunulitilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patanisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d37b84d3c1fb85ade879ae4a58c348/mulakizixegiwatujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f317af0955---bukusavodaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/77325430903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2c4b01419---78582438297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80363df36624a1071f58a3ade2bd597a/26902033819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tabla+de+conversion+de+bit+a+bytePDF 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_off000102f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F0 19740 bytes
SHA-256: c9d4ed48420c572b11823ce2483979211fafb8eb2d30cfa39edb68bf8342bd8e
font_01_sfnt_off0001359e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DB5 10644 bytes
SHA-256: c33b5aaf0fe57624a6c0bd3741f09902d080c49138c6295714eae497c77a6747