Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e4675752a90869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:27:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: abc86873fccf83dbd692a554ebb83b8e SHA-1: e68006bed5295c5efe801e666bc9d430f47285fd SHA-256: d5e4675752a90869e6b6a795f327516bc1954348fb110d3d8b1daab772fee4e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing formcraft or super-forms plugins for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cdd4256c8---64527219793.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba127a47ca---bisijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///82249686001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/16396317012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpmbdf01745dsa3fukco747ga1/13733244823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqi1um8o0nlg4adnte3q49167q/vovatojetutuzipilofegujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860cd44bf2e---xijowebela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd72ca20954---45325855722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnfocqg5qf228rfkkejaomdasd/toxamefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b219f176a---devemirobapedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/gukadaparavakuzulini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/nugoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8528e57e277bf32570e0423941a38c5/foxidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/10775061546094ce384721f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/92337166214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kampdkd59c2ktj9scj2chhgbf8/mepuxosabitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/dixuziwiguleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cea77c45ae---96221069701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210528150419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/55484513526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b356731823ca59cffe7cae18140a783/butavutodefurufezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5d679382a---guzodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/77931495509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=this+far+and+no+furtherPDF 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_off0000eb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB09 17308 bytes
SHA-256: d39d80802bb984bd5046dbbf722c19704952c9b25f6cc091052d13e8cff07517
font_01_sfnt_off000117fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13015 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 5feebc3e7c745bc63e8158868e77d03a2bd895bea9ae814df5153ea5818fb4d0