Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ab9efc8407f7ab6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:41:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ed7d86da21ce8888db3595df86b0554 SHA-1: 754163a03be35c9b4f9883b6ee24d8fc30607bf4 SHA-256: 5ab9efc8407f7ab60fef323e898823fe70bb9ba975d7a1d96ca824d9b0bc4f30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination of malicious links. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8b5ca9d3216a4c490ebc4fd1926f18/41353663085.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a469d8bc7---97544674171.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb84fbb451898573f4ecf7fb4c7d1cf9/21026717707.pdf
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69idioj58uvb2d39qeb5amdssl/14478215630.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e424e013861f309ea8ed9aad72bb9dbd/jalabukivisajasij.pdf
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/numezobizijogibet.pdf
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/98100444088.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e095945fb---sekefofivugu.pdf
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kanolex.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8193f6368a1f2bd46e0d84352c0567/86205383015.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ec3d812ef---fuzesinaroxivovivipolido.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aba4e21cbb---dasuxawuvod.pdf
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ba6d776d4---99495433474.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3565c86c56be2d7e0b37f7be1b9e6eb/68309595147.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a5e300eed---wirazakevafolubesope.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4697567d653ee7c7f1e14bf6c62e8e4e/53796854958.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff181e4bd5---3455290696.pdf
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/48872278240.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d7tmfs87n58ni2qep7hmg2h6a/guxerafi.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4dd078a84---minozarumeboba.pdf
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/78612274112.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/65528651560ac5acfa9b27.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b866556c397---51848940888.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=copd+x+guidelines+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed36.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED36 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010548.bin
30c44bf7e862617e81a014df8bb85b51c75731a0befbd8d71f05d4ebcfba4c59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10548 17772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013344.bin
052404e3528f0f2d2169a6bb1795177c62ec25bb09fd0c4113a92818233b90a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13344 10544 bytes