Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5812f4b29d9391b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-26 13:35:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a91e003a10dbd275fa40fceaa47a5d15 SHA-1: ad0e1564bb5707511b093885799c3c3a9b7467d3 SHA-256: e5812f4b29d9391b9579f90d699a266e2c3f0cbef3d1f95c75dad681f74e46e7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, including one hosted on 'amwordpress.org' which is identified as a compromised CMS upload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wigaxulipofuxaxulopawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/28789211428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/winomuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/46789277069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52691086827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads//files/202108062245327728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f74ed76fc2---39421500219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb7b907e578a5633aa4fa3e30a6f756d/vuralino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809628e7f73---49370912091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc424b4421965266aa289c150bd681d8/15977655852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/47219101248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/lixamiropalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/jemojusirodinesiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df0d04ba8d---39674444055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ff8897512608170f9709d1a8bae59d/guxosaxefexapoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/90409673071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a6a3d94d8d---mazawekinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10357740e6---jojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d87e533403211d667486c9d374c2980/kozaxafowosunibelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/25855540616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/domesesajisatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baf931d5a8aaba42e121e671312cc3aa/20512155399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/20138802816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/razuroteruroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/sukugunubivuzesava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotofolliasanlazzaro.it/userfiles/files/82031475301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3foglk2gcrf1kqqmvlc1u30f5/23490611057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=download+pdf+the+fault+in+our+starsPDF 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_off0000e8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CC 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 083a69110338e39f6def3fa9e50ff60becf4f6cf4f6c8346a054f6cd50fd00e5
font_01_sfnt_off0001185c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185C 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 801ebcceccc2e73c50d91dba34b84914cc6d1e04b6c220980486303673fafc4d
font_02_sfnt_off0001312b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1