Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5512ff00f006a28c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ad3bbae7620d40da41c704ddf2d660e0 SHA-1: 7e26dfef6236c80f82ff9cef7fbd21a9c161fc25 SHA-256: 5512ff00f006a28c66d6015d82ef8ef441ecaee623ab7559b3a009455e1eaf55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to external sites. The primary goal appears to be luring users to potentially malicious content through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/91967019184.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e060a9affb0---wuvanitudifoxenofavozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/nodubefebevepara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/lezixilijazoxuxekutisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f77aa211e---roposijonitibevinodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55e79d0955---98912095568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f94a2233c6e949de6408784fd54dec23/10690769284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070569abe14a---45958004969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuteninupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95785575925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/61531045459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa9env81fk2ia50nm490m6fgst/84560309794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59f9ac3558---desoxelixulifiruvifufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607550e9c762c---dojadomaduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/37114547782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/bewisojegofukegotusebuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6975806445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/62585967363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/mominezawijuxonatalutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tiegnbjssijpm7f2ddtisqnben/gazuvusufugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074763f3891e---57516559317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimijezukemekivoxexirupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/foxarenoxuxokeledoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bc7525e92---81701438725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/47889342601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=youthful+exuberance+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_off0000bdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFB 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 483461df00cd0ef5a194b19c8df2337220c2f096a3f441a2b1465e6d529182d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B6 10784 bytes
SHA-256: befd960bb83cc0482ece3aa1dc240f04a95ea34d0743b8e6b955acd3bb8daadf
font_02_sfnt_off0001004d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1