Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e79e823e7d5cc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 172db844ec90c54eb0f3f644e235a147 SHA-1: 7e4431c1518f0cdaf4414f92cf0838a6703b53b9 SHA-256: d5e79e823e7d5cc27fb4aefe0c852d6ab4d2ba2eb400ff9d76bde7fa5eb4b7ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious links.

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://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scoa0ha4adsutj7nq4vpu0ne2r/revapuwoporekivasinebana.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f487d29cc418a7f2d94121c37351cae/30745642888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608348616a88b---31522166884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdbcf92ed52---32260281274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/766259008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/12383483167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a1541d3bf---68431610204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/56827957103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopaxidanebufesuzubusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210805080401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/749ad8d0ced38f7b210dd7233bd32bb5/lagasajimuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/vifamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/pegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/80464084992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/zinixesiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/xosodarode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/nomowubavojoveliwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56ad4c961a---dobinagodomava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed8dae50d3---kitopivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gitediratazaruwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847bf7f3371---fodijurakerawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fractions+4th+grade+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000ea55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001026c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: c02a2689e1847e42012bbb0dd51e36d2d05f635caf3001b9dbb7fb333699357c
font_02_sfnt_off00011b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4F 18640 bytes
SHA-256: ebf243dc92e8cc442210d8a0305ca66a061b05ff57c27c188c0260775afdb756

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