Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5869c321e48f06ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:41:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5ffe50ad23463f7667e39662aa8eb219 SHA-1: f2a80fbed95bfb26595b660f17280e2bb8c5d505 SHA-256: 5869c321e48f06edae3bb92c7569cf53b9aa2790488b2dfdbfd911377131c733
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable domains, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+develop+a+questionnaire+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/posiwazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/63844818186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h0hkjg7v9b11mfnqk6ije055r/4991187672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/80347391490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f89a17d8a1c3b0a4d92ec068019fd6/pebezuxafovokopafoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82781c6afb---pimobovimuromevasamake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137b0fb6f8a3327a1d7b32910144e196/naratawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/lasilopupofulosuvinupozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce4fc28c31---87479607877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/32485795747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76007902190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/1483591125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174a616b9dd3889e86c4dcc7a2e87dc3/wevejibupinuxotavitopidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8034a910b---48943951142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4373890217---kudinina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/lejitigafenedazujukokaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/jeralubapitibufetegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5fb150244affe5242b0b46bbdbf549/fekuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/550505ff474d88a5c4ab9632a9e72745/94223208317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/84451351654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh1973.com/clients/2/27/27a5067865c8334ad4a5a1fd7642c928/File/nimikomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf124327c3ad3596266352704ed2525/19734619806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d16c4b92d---72681059564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297a17621a31e0f756ba796e2fda3ee0/50521734767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/roguzepivozopatatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000126e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E6 10880 bytes
SHA-256: be3ee1d9d7a9fd4f5810021f7bd7018f94455b10cd648b1a7c0efe71c1808ef0
font_02_sfnt_off00013ff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF3 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 98accce1e65de9eaf0d21c267f6972162bf3f559835d23d2298dbf4c1150232d