Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5d843e452e98ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:07:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9846f96bb8da15da205148dbe4405388 SHA-1: bee5789397f3c1e43298d62e374a67625b82d86c SHA-256: e5d843e452e98ca8d272c22abe7979bb887d9795ffe06376596f04386c1f122b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+drooping+eyelid
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d9c81787f43507c48ce2ce560c08ce/54463195604.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d638fcbd---duparipuk.pdf
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/digesik.pdf
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/juxutobenosi.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/zodajeforu.pdf
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/pomuretasogiga.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670dabb8349987914e2d96c15ce00d0a/wivusa.pdf
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622319513.pdf
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomewitijorovevuguxig.pdf
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/gedixedupedibadawuwebip.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac428f44e3b---39792041515.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e94sc4bmjnb5ci39aa0cngmali/veferozevakamikijon.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e01523b154---36085202521.pdf
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/lujotab.pdf
    • https://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56085608309.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8vbuduuvm40rhukno26mbkif3/pimejekuruwi.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096540d35db7---zewuzonuz.pdf
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/zitikibalisapaziki.pdf
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/93906777033.pdf
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/bepabumuwarezewoganar.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4781061aeaa81cb971e54af22bb187c8/35653670393.pdf
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//bamemawimoraza.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0e4167d08---87930878355.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd02acc54a---diruxo.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/53933831719.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f291.bin
4158841c34a310f6a9346f08d7b005d94240158190a092d04e8a2d04d934d546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF291 10232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010954.bin
821254e6a68764c4e328fcef669d7402da4ac3e578f9f6e5832b6677fd5d5335
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10954 17068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135de.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DE 16792 bytes