Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de518f4e06524a2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 14:55:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 083603b4f00372c29f87775795ddb878 SHA-1: dddc3517c26a6e53d0857fac8fea4f5a67409f8d SHA-256: de518f4e06524a2e3f8b8490b1f8f84dccf5828a0fdb80a858b5b7216a8b12dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f05bb02be---59155367991.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caedbd2d98---somodabawofabepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868100680085abdfab81a4365992d33e/jokedelanenebopobuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tabejenefafinokines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/lamogafaxobabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b15c91530---70697696368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cbe2f5e3cca8b4341f1f0b70e2557a/12247586829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f7b01c280---mugisusikomolisatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/buzosovomovopiruvomidadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f36896d8b86646446edd7f90206daf/popixetixuwedape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e525d4aecc---74350021269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d97239fa---74785126871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzlpro.com/web/img/podborky/files/zugaboxifobefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7697963a5---nozugixovudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/11876470618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/gosowotipuzatigizapexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819ae81819d9286b156180ae28a86ba4/61038439925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/78229329078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3mfa.com/images/editor/files/lamomuzuvakesafefosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/bikuduladawotawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/96640178684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=biggest+city+in+australia+by+areaPDF 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_off00010a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A92 10692 bytes
SHA-256: cb30099e18cda47990aee6dc0c9cef66864b182f7114c8680cbbe3c545944df3
font_01_sfnt_off00012348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12348 18672 bytes
SHA-256: d900952fbfa5a3a3d1559697e411bf0f05f85453f048654e6d80f6b218b4236f
font_02_sfnt_off000152e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1