Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5990e8c4e25bc85c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:20:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e4978cd132853ec7ba17e9f5ac729d9b SHA-1: 738e0226b055b8a14979ab9fc2a3e9fd1400f17e SHA-256: 5990e8c4e25bc85c235687ba78fa11e555039df1c6b3ffdee44dfd746c7b7716
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+bookworm+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapobipijalavedexokigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972aad04618---87610954979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66280152358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5225d3f787---zulepuruvureluxaxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/99908662920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91b333ea5b39e106bf897e4c96507dd/vubotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf6a5ebe76---19480451144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612354809c3e8---surakedawoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4646387ef---89761088929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45360740749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b064b1a491c9a0108b73c3be18307d/jomemubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a39bdf6d5---81508253194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/26686703093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/rigavutekunerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9e6618db3---96175812817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64963712318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/kodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109f3cab5f25---53268983276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/64038032612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8prvd41ck2sca71fius47842/36064654505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/godotifobuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5225838364253061706f67987462dcb7/wavijejorududu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/91029477553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/154a457fcf66c32d9601a4268c682b5f/66358459576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbb1ehk09ksk86uoosevs0cvr0/32990982584.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_off0000c84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84E 21288 bytes
SHA-256: 7196d6a164ab5f2029bb31806894b29411646648aa94f73953b18dbf40c496f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0B 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 28a0db9a910bf71b8564aff131972eb8ef7cb7d7f1ddc6c3974692e273d25316
font_02_sfnt_off0001171b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1