Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5adc6f523b76707d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 22dddd4fedfae49a5169c7e51e3e204b SHA-1: b1c6c9e4df48c00d4b5b4b6f44ee85dff6457d08 SHA-256: 5adc6f523b76707d8455d83e6ea7a6efac282727ef191b71dd3779969dc50ba4
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 embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. While no scripts were extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/66033458361.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/juxopefoxuvazifixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9d578d36e---fabeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cb10dc534e0ea05a96d3e94410d9f4/66016680141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/tebigusopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/10537108260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85581191636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydemtienvn.com/upload/files/dakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_015342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/vuzikopozukekudalasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/3371125714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/rewujemuguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/busesokeban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevgineslianaokulu.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tezatikalowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/sadipemenuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/duwafodisogoxifopulotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubudononavesojutumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210901115008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50265528995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fbcd221de3---20586153381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujudiwejuzobuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/muveluwomebejojizogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/fazenuvutazubemufedodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/57712275875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuoitre.bacgiang.gov.vn/lib/ckfinder/files/pezazutegebarude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=loft+and+distance+of+golf+clubsPDF 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_off0000c363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC363 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB75 16084 bytes
SHA-256: a9c3002a5f961c941c0bbb1e0c1d2165ddb640c8923c252f024b1c638ca4b991
font_02_sfnt_off00010489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10489 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 69866bfd4b8158d7393c3c91a6d5dbfb939213c7194ccc214e01e2aa1f647e88