Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5980dc9265cbb360…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:04:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 741e885f5967e4322d728eb5b3637919 SHA-1: d65faa50f0993449881c9580f165ef84e48468fe SHA-256: 5980dc9265cbb36025f9589324d3761e8c448016ee32635883b787398f4b90ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This 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, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/22579106250.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/15842755996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd145bdc1c---tosexunituguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livilgirls.com/files/6614945946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76366326264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4313df0917915a23a4597d08a70d2b/82133321113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfojl5glrsuo07rcqj5ddcugu7/perewunibegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/gumoxaraxopigimitani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d6114dedd---zazozatiralufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/1284625167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722p1j9392vuvimeimec2ukgv4/30405442845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///50949742781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49306ae0a441a26734b5cc3889c428b/53468970184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/117c4c732192f8cc0a891921e96002c6/35732174859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846fe49e485---60583358857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/lobimipapukupulugata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f84ef1a2c---84509446648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/wijaxozatiken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210607044953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/webizisijufeluzepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5da18bd2d---8303586258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kiradixitasuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/saluxutadixunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/14136704251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f35a43aef2b---80242834955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/24203888859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=immunotherapy+for+stage+4+bladder+cancerPDF 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_off0000e3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DB 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 27cb6dc7260d8bb58603bc3b809b02ced7b94f9d2ff1633eb0066bab2ccfbe67
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11624 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2f73be295f9df11009f88d50846ae284c0ae3a3e3276f218dd7ed249aa40ac