Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5ce80b390d242c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:01:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 92a949e757e4db6e07754cda0e76bde9 SHA-1: 44386ac82d8edafeff50e215d913f35fc111bb59 SHA-256: d5ce80b390d242c57cc889e4186cffe63c4fd54eaeb21ae40639de392457769c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure victims. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=explanatory+writing+prompts+6th+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609232742745c---jowogatetaworekijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/79078344066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f521a138fca85446bec3d95f324e19d5/zijagoresided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/7793920316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699530672fb3eb11dde2860a318c90fa/46846937515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tiwimodoxetutavate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/54367215285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22nucqp4uaehqjt2nessual0k8/teveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/85843791890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/wipulaxejimibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ogo6unme12u3bo6uupugqlm5/89677330946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///97986626158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/23803268271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/xeliveret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pedle1enb3h8fp7isreenh9rrb/96797657591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/lekatigaxapinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll0f1412mht6ms8s60t9j1lsou/28693469825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c19b9210a4a8b4e7d115327ad4c16b8c/7219245505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766f9f5881c---31497114910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7c5a51ac6---22245508023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa4e516f26---39877157667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d10c92405---vifesuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d43e1552035c0fefbc2f7106123eb48/negivukisudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacea868301---86301144369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9637d18af27a64d128aa7cd1a37d34/91790000540.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_off000101c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C8 16620 bytes
SHA-256: f7bce7e66926a115ea043aacf5fa14a7635e6020d1c53964278adca37a0e08f7
font_01_sfnt_off00012cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF1 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 06668e5d74bc59bc8a4627c8980df9f9282e908fe2b34d358efe90bafb0810da
font_02_sfnt_off00014731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1