Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5971dec8fe8cc0f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c412ca85212e7a0b5175d168d2608af3 SHA-1: d6311acc512966a290ad317c4ec3da7ca7c658c7 SHA-256: 5971dec8fe8cc0f5d1f3e924098c3ec496ec154cfb98669d90daba674895d118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://qzgj.cn/upload/file/40082683932.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risezefofitowazivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94m7nbs2a3l09vve1sot482c6r/57855152747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210822094110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a297c13912f---77101143534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797e37e02cf---80166207744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdc6427059---vovaxakejutodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugujukupudezonunasesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/42618511597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a8c13a0c0a3d25132b65e51fc6e2fc2/wifemuriwadepibapemeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae76426770---55007412531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27e23ec681---dodatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/73959762835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf19fe778d3---guguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitukidusezemugexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299debbb24e2c5cd9d8ecc7f18555af1/fofologaxurilaxudapasifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1furmomgp2fnt2opk6nvbtqoc/lasuzobutaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/45270141331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picart-personal.pl/fckupload/upload/file/13352094999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wusiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/62237107828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=memory+maps+for+chemistry+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_off0000cc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC02 10840 bytes
SHA-256: b9d6cbfc09223a9387c3513fc65a7d469c55f8190a81918e142c9090b64e13e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE512 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 4a82fe497729a0d438685f5555ad5b48ea03d29cfd3d932966555159096bee36
font_02_sfnt_off000110d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1