Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5128df7d5af6c10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f4afc9615caf9de6f31dfc04564f79a4 SHA-1: d784de8132a9e555fa76aca469fdb3aee197bc46 SHA-256: e5128df7d5af6c107a264142c60afb66bc1c2755f71175b67f257bf8995e2b1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an effort to distribute malicious links widely.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banners+someone+to+you+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35181915417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081de4c58594---40353919093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/13054536510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vckphn82k5o4f0cv1442d9qo03/61112938104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/84912885077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c376da4b17b82681d35007dbb67ab5/79151705109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305qj1lnq79g7csb9p2s8a0pa8/89324604475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c575929dfc---40316709891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/23993439856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2dvg4l7am5k97nj2ugkujtn7n/83192790411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb9p8ngvah0q47efue10qr432m/96348178285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72790d241cdcc10964b690939726a383/bejigixepojuxelugukelaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpi3smekt45v24co5agpq9of2a/begus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/12921657177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/15200783501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/59511782560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aae33a0d6f39bf43a72c21e786cc712/32265012537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1db85d0ca---wojaleporiforebomijasusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16073929d7a60c---16505190884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6r5ofmjnq6r0hfka131cng6qgu/8740056362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/80821780352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b257812b5a---nugubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6d5be1708---38086275948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7172806e4c2086c8681fc5751b05691d/womivixegalojizeduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c712ebaa338---48904554636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l937rmh61m1r04a8u30qaeog9p/jipawalifefib.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://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_off0000e85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85A 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 2c8b3cbc86bc8b5fcdb06cd7964641045047997fd926a168d722ab97e22963b4
font_01_sfnt_off0001138e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138E 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 349926248a13fe0dd4922c18f3bb059105c795352063bdd3bee6a1a6bd3642eb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1