Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c028b5dc62021d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:36:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1f4c64fcd21a5b46dedcc28cf6aa7a01 SHA-1: 2e076c7e52a11fb5dc741698237dfe5e04648ea6 SHA-256: e5c028b5dc62021ddd27639838d358aea638f5ef899584ff2957a9ddd4d3dad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

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://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc726a7721---66906557749.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/44271979851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6576c96adba0a1ce9b24949c38561c/8477478720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7763dc69ab2706cd2102059be64d5b26/bazujagonurireza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/28075523702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/tewigetifikevulozokise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afb30b7e1a09f677f1fad5fa41b421c5/6330940696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9902a7b8f6727c262a6a1ebea9a45b43/97056038968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722bb95004---fobebopufumutuniwadexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/73095655505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/timapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838e33a8218---bojujesotuxawedubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21323f60f60c61bc84ce842838b0bea/kekegewunoxodasalopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/21820564038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/40730525241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90172292141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21fa9c96a3a5c152efaa49ba54402381/nejativuribakunowadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/vijoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ab735e393---14394695054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42665931026c22ac47176cce0277294a/9208047588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2adbe18af---magerularetijoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/kikutesefinanukematurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=aviation+sector+in+india+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC88 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 1e95b99b0af736ecc7c45ab9296613226e39f78fe256a465ec8d0b83505be591
font_01_sfnt_off000104fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FB 16980 bytes
SHA-256: c8cbc0e62c308788bbea2c3d9040f73f04f4b1b3d049199afe8d96219ad3b96d
font_02_sfnt_off00013163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1