Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5f2dbde6ab1eaef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-06 14:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e43aeccf88672bea5ca98d43c5a66bc0 SHA-1: 4698c4acdfb5a3b543e1e26157832060a81bcb85 SHA-256: d5f2dbde6ab1eaef6d6c502c1f2cdabac6df442d058a5d8f54d678f20fe2f66b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic findings point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=warfare+1944+hacked+unblocked+weebly PDF link annotation
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094521459b0e---tefakasekuforavemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad0ff3f4de---zuxekotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37db64a8a4---29405233783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06e6112aa1a60743f25b4203be6ff5b/25266611777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2995e6e4faad7c4f3bc670669a44d9/zolorozizupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/gavufinilevageborek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/8146828929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafb08b7ee9---fakigafimubizozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770a0c8a929---82802882491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e923cebac6---rodunuxapulaxizemidebelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/zafutikolujalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084634d6122f---35426313370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2ab65503e---zetizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090542c4d643---86309222944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgp94a9sdrccc0p2dkslu32e77/72823989521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088792ae3532---kovetovuwuwegepeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaad5924a9---favonejuregixoponirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb325742e073d4ad328d79aeb6026c0/pubixewenerugajosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7E 5640 bytes
SHA-256: dc05a8381d17d6db52b9515b6a59a8c9608c19b9e124232a5e5277ea42d75912
font_01_sfnt_off000122ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CE 10876 bytes
SHA-256: c70a2b705685731451a1f64ce1126db7d1c7d45875c0f81f1f8c9474b1ef9eae