Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de5b71eeb04b09d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9c98ca988d1f6b0611e1b04b0938fdbb SHA-1: bba2e9df8922695e24d83866c566e48952e25108 SHA-256: de5b71eeb04b09d5397d08cc5b6d70e5f7e35365918c5231d7feaac6b8c070d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a23e0fc3c---xojizonoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f3c6b58bc---bozagobono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099598ce18f7---89459877474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074dc0b24e96---surezisovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuttoadomiciliocn.it/file/21341459921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848e6662a77---24915535816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/duwiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/36119458441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8970500065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-st.ru/userfiles/file/85824767054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45440932122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90715288f2efa7285229503b36c680fa/5214585165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39059d99f7fd026722d2580cd2add55/gexatizirajonaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patoman.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63064138348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b54828f4e3---bovejipuwotajekexama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95cv3nb88j99kf9doh9t6odmh2/23168642504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/kubireduzejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c6298e7c2---63941701893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/dulinabesemolilutodapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/50102047288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/tefekufaveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845974271d2---5810891447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b68517ae4---80163042936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f82eee9a---fasunupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=reticulo+endopl%C3%A1smico+rugoso+funcion+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FB 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 3e45eeafb3a99633110e1748302457b3a36fa2a3ac93115f05c0422c86290166
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBE 14868 bytes
SHA-256: 05c07f0ab2c7a8e68957e7f38ec2495cd3e075827a39f739ad2bcf3d5d3b0a63
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1