Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5447fc5c8780e5d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:26:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 683ef9acb441276f7419a36e621d0378 SHA-1: ca780a88cc263833cf6567b2a62ab3d04a881dfa SHA-256: 5447fc5c8780e5d513351f6dec2e91749ec947a84cbbe532d39c8b09878f99c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=story+map+worksheet
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/pexegovedukapofudam.pdf
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/68567879317.pdf
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujatolumexam.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea0df60e64---musewugozifaxa.pdf
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/lavenugakiverov.pdf
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/78923542091.pdf
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/6697802595.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac82f87878---wabugojapuzuximiw.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cddcb6167b---76711486172.pdf
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/51106362737.pdf
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/siferamogexuzaz.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6651d59ff957ee9dde3a204c35cc3b26/jiribi.pdf
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/82861472858.pdf
    • http://masterkontroll.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4008437238.pdf
    • http://njf724.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/86063320288.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f8636e1f03---tobekuxolapasovaviwofubul.pdf
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/84108221548.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be901d3565e---44571896534.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3cda105a1f---robewulufadikut.pdf
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/6638728110.pdf
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/nadaruzirutaluzop.pdf
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/90413945438.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0ed8a10e6---pezetaresekizajikupogepe.pdf
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/25405056854.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_off0000fe75.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE75 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011687.bin
8def895d8e397fadd46dcacb9fbefb34325bbe41397a9d362fee8ba2dce600c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11687 18500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001462e.bin
3a91ba9ec96ef1c8eaef477271deb42f13ab31aae36e725977275da6c2ee445e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1462E 10640 bytes