Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5575ff5b305f9e80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 13:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 556e84efecf9ab6d4fa1da95f949cd32 SHA-1: 1bd047d7e2496a0b9b8b1c1312a04706ee407a00 SHA-256: 5575ff5b305f9e80562e37197f81d2ca3aafaaa46968e2995dd78d736fe34c11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b08a6ac4---pituritagamovixusojo.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3deb744838f4beb48ee3db3fa1df82/bividuvexorotegevufegirex.pdf
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/saxonuvodem.pdf
    • http://mvsexpo.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sosupozeluxisinol.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/pujifez.pdf
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/gezonev.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ae5b6d73e---16697525331.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904658993e5---9728625888.pdf
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/260910238299.pdf
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/45798217519.pdf
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/17880516024.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a027e00ea96---17351733053.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fbcd1d73e---51455931360.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a93869c0a37d2d16c4ef295177f632f/60360059617.pdf
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/fekez.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7661fb444c---54449755906.pdf
    • https://cahayamimpi1.com/contents//files/10431070449.pdf
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/denir.pdf
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/812456741.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871b8476b00---nifarevuzobibisom.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=diamantes+gratis+para+free+fire+2019+generador
    • 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_off0000ca16.bin
270d4858fa971c3f52260806ca2aee00fb53244ae98177dd36ecbab9c548bee5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA16 18612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011133.bin
caeab1d1faf43dead2205b7216a9886bd78e55bbd4c61862a6b7c724fd0cad2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11133 11260 bytes