Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df5c24faf605d06b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 18:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ea92f2dd0092390ff8f21343c3557415 SHA-1: 5ca6a214f6dd6bcf44012cc882b19ecf7f5a5c83 SHA-256: df5c24faf605d06b8b2858c442867e096235fdfd989fc6ae9b699d7457dffe5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded links are designed to lure users to these compromised sites, potentially for credential harvesting or to download additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9609d13bbb93087dbd3a0c12b751cc/zoned.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c77c8c52d5105d30737f6e638f7cc0/sesezumupivigolimitazono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608923f1e1523---71022309152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/wurukepezegamuganilusoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ch75a65nk4jmfrel39cfp9ihb6/wuguxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774ace1fe89---luvixawagelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755f8e17e64---29481088305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqujip41cnoddonibv9omsjih2/9658546004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/wumojojutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05ae9b2ebb7654a68f75c0def6a0c212/nupajasiledalimegojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f03c0615a---wirojukuvavarivisimumower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqovv7gsdr1dl0d73kltgh5uj7/gugemugewipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/89586062806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3bac69554---renisoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/77822185053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd44265f14---nojuwejuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f2154e5be07e213983c8ea8e0bf3412/49318762495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=south+movie+hd+filmPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b7ded62556408e53266546345bc042/jezodenaguri.pdfIn 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_off0000e61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE61B 4828 bytes
SHA-256: 77847ed6debe798d476900b03936e55efea25265e4926380cbb69526dff3c57c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66F 10704 bytes
SHA-256: a1d91af6d23209a7b30c392b99929a4676b243e73c3f4bbe5a2624a4406ba896