Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b4f6e034bf00f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 14:21:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7b58e3da75d90b246a1a397b190ad8ce SHA-1: 58ac463cb2a645b97a08ce02524aa3a88ce17179 SHA-256: e5b4f6e034bf00f3d69e038a227a6dbf82d2d48554a5d0f7100601cf7a5ab0f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious URLs. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0a1c85b1f0814f50c6bf81de5274ac/88453317152.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab246644b9e771fedea6d8b3c6afa7c/79652096279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/88653323194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c670c06268---36564815806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1bee88074d---wuluvivarugasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090928c598f8---gibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/66035369581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gifq9ibk8222k522ef1ejo1s3s/83667259355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6d099dd6b---38960793957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v18ufj773ef86vpiabk21niobh/xipotuzoxopasopozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d55c6e6c2f---guwalekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ba7feca68---32000562771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/25984831244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758deef3b2b---73189189509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g0h0u9u5lpgauo486395niom6/mataniteromeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efec2c54a7aabff8002afdc8ff98a4bd/77835540297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e63a88888758440e4a26fdba06f07e6f/dadejenizebitunemipererom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088004061c9f---ruwixifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahnomenalumni.com/clients/879209/File/70149380713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/basep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/zininezimunijagexapewusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km8dojt2q3og7qju47vr95ours/17615730205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti3bhkummbvqcp9t93g3jodnl2/silojutejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apogeeconsultancy.com/upload/files/kiwumixuledetutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=omens+ringing+of+the+earPDF 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_off00010b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4D 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 89a3ddec6fb2c77359f36f1d47f6a16b3637adb748c0ede6419a84685e679eb1
font_01_sfnt_off0001237e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 17056 bytes
SHA-256: ed7b0d63ba096a06c3942e18458b16d9559fcfe99c6fb09d5d1568e49260a929