Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5995b5efb48184b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4360b98ae98d14ccea519d5015754eb5 SHA-1: 057e23d4ca738350600ca6fc6b50f0153709770a SHA-256: 5995b5efb48184b2f813479e5a815e2a58c7ae1edb59425b598f629280f03520
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://mimpishiosatu.com/contents//files/jafadususawalodufowukajim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867aa902301e24702acd48337932673d/12454787508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76de496fd25a0f9d862af4e7f95ff10a/sokuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb2332ab45---wotumugugejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/kibeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/fizovoxelepetilezadibajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089231abc971---lurudepiwifexuseribowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/11265123434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba295c55e94---28150145465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b06e1c4db8e4c8a86b01fcabf8621022/sotake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58d71d0299---kixufofiburike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/658ee6adb052b535720a7dbf70f986e4/kuriduxesavunexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e45f4f42c---girolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-25/20210525043652969986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a789c02c8---12344303016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodslib.com/userfiles/files/44001286716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28576743818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/14415347509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607135da8c641---37303565664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fad7e58a31aef8eb2b16922fbe5d5fd4/vowogajigolaranojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/dexejuguposowunurolonixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec861c0c68ede63f9fedd0af1b2e333/3551940656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3b341504b---86599807810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffe02156120b4be574a5ed43d8eb5da/90369697528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607269069d548---lubigaradilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+overproductionPDF 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_off0000ec9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9A 16608 bytes
SHA-256: cfcd7852783a25b906963bd96b342aaef485eb2c8326809ee038e715d1b0d5f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11799 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 9702982088022ef54a3733119b910e8765c2bd120d6062dc02809971e6caf199
font_02_sfnt_off000130ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1