Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a514bee5a33842…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9c94b954e824fc7560623131414b08c4 SHA-1: dfa31af41103eca0c52dcc335ea3741a54561a42 SHA-256: d5a514bee5a33842fe975ebeca6d3e13f93ce11c662a42db7caf9b2de1e6a70c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=story+with+comprehension+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f9ce3083---misarirafedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d268abcf7e82eaf7309a778b84e20d/wezije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/tilawepijesixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/89913836053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607251cb9998e---28315084866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c48ba626fa60492fc89e2f2f1a94d77/44923046382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c4c47fa00---10515151619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/58105958460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/75245134198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/39351979316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae9a40dc57464e089775fbf320bec00/52366177715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62e4c83a31895d8675e792b8f9191801/jibezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/50010557902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3cf25d1ad---12174792823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fab5c554e---33754421773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b93debea8---89423894432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fe51910fc00b4aef40fad561be2c01/79782350117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3b0ad38609d2c540604cd37f14ff019/85335830451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc2a3b9260---bemabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c340e3442a5---30502937071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1750c6d5384e715a56b46528d8e16dbe/45249894638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/wujafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b50c2a0bb---ditobowatufovagabadutuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f43aa334c817c91f452eed22975e62/35696704384.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off0000e8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A9 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 6fc301eef0a6660f77e9b15263139af3633d4e009bbfb41346f1d190c1bed69d
font_01_sfnt_off000113e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C00 10952 bytes
SHA-256: eb7562d82170d429cd144da8aa45d37ecc12d9d7db9aaf3f4edb831ffd2023e7