PDF malware analysis — malicious · 5ab55fb90cf02980

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23

MD5: 2e4750bbbf758121a197ac827cc0b6c4 SHA-1: 4ddcef7124709b67794519873f573c3f717992d4 SHA-256: 5ab55fb90cf029801275f81fe2bddc43d0c023f0ae5c31bac2e5d6fe51792d4b

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics indicate these links are often found on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, increasing the likelihood of malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cast+option+in+mi+tv PDF link annotation
- http://zhongguohuachun.com/d/files/72215448186.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/kivovokexopaxiboxele.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanikawomosatekogorituma.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/7928370319.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021090318054253.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8601f29fa---petudoseduwokivifuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/11781793210.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6188411754.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136832a68942---71027290075.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://addisonplaza.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/96184195959.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/8125649012.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/ledidubobebizizevituno.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/soseliw.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/zenatab.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/89695415657.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://charming-dc.com/uploads/files/202109101949107430.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t23f87vlth9i7fmp8lk5ba825/wagetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d79d72c2bb---pofifikavixafo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613067e8c5e2a---47931074584.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.pacautomarketing.com/file/bomuxenimepugejo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85673297914.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/6798575600.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d219ca596---vutimepatowakuzesadug.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/legiga.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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000be2a.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE2A	15588 bytes
SHA-256: `5bfddb94ce1b4daf9a98b62f60ed624bee4c4b72dab1e16cf9cabb553c863574`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b8.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B8	10232 bytes
SHA-256: `6696606cb064cbaf361230d196837f55f339a7bf1c96a9ffcaa85d204fa073f6`
`font_02_sfnt_off0000fcbb.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBB	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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