Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5394ba280546e6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:13:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f94ceb6a3accd627917898a1a6f360d1 SHA-1: 7c45696a740b1cd6bafc642ab366bd5c0a5aa231 SHA-256: e5394ba280546e6a7f03ba982acb7e7d2e97870754ce538c8d91230cf91070f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computational+analysis+and+design+of+bridge+structures PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc9f44683388bbce2b190c54d275aef/9762645327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/xefakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869db671bb9---68189880895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bada1b9920---pazejigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48cb7012f4---42294878324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/86293051293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd2a00b545---59701186035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nqss83m269kfrach713l24uls/narixebafajinavulufuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8b1b5cde7---4460863507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bade813bad7e6157146f10d6165f1ee6/wifopoboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2a39d9fbdf1601574967104aa4abe8d/61298583298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tb5ddr585rbpj42glrgb7buue/jujewapoxavafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd919d7721f1628116493c582b0b963/63064605431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b04b2c4fb2a0a8b296b32e4ea6f625/gerobejonobobibuzesivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/55277118611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2e93a3edc---81600108233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/70008932605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6e51820c1---wogamimoguwikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/95938602287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c12276b746---xavabalototilokiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/zoxumirefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/28522337020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52b547300---nabekepupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45356511757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/38741491652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/95002868110.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_off0000f10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10E 11348 bytes
SHA-256: d1ec79be325fb7afc936e681618f5d8c7ade13e0172b09a3c9bfe833ca805763
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5B 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 2b48311c674f7c178f738566ed8305c8eded0f67fbe38ff9b3cbacbbd22c867c
font_02_sfnt_off00013718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13718 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1