Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e00b5786f1e326dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cbbc6459a8dc65cf502c6005639a94e4 SHA-1: f5ab91a32a7747c9d8c80a39b4170e694da293c4 SHA-256: e00b5786f1e326dcd2971e28432174247931eb1fba17fb7f7f4a0e42b70dc0fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous extracted URLs confirm the link farm pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798ded630fc---89184221701.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3uror8slm47ffivb7li9nlikg/vagixaniwasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/75977646104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u39pa8nucdee710cv8745u8484/87003629216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/9408077100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obs9m5gclp3vjvv3tinh98k0e5/38180136490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/samumeninorogozijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7664f165d3fe42cc8589c4785a10c685/45790908992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46087402818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33a0120b547684b822aa3b899441f7e9/15251817937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac33f20fc66---76328117595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9f854e55f---pabokuvuvisudegokaxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954c43680b9a359179ecb52fbb400a0e/65462893181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d5c5d84ca125dc752f8d95407a9b39/58439154080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/29592349996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev574nr6j7alpsd8i50o2fejo3/35933539711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5ff1a5400---vewigunuzizisakizudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c2f6012a387db822190cbc2cbbab090/dejoxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/tebapotanajomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89147700058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/67941024880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461a41f8b6db463b19b90df7b072ca8e/mofomuwopowuxaladapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=side+view+face+drawingPDF 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_off0000f30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30E 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 183027ef37b06a07e6aff053247be18227c897ebb08fa54e5b5517f1868ba3ea
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C9 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 507433e6bb828f235930ea8ec5dc50b15a1fc03e00a2ed2561d7e8ced5b51a7e