Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b14278b1eefca40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 38103a1f031bf7ffb3a8ba712aba8f25 SHA-1: 6a1ed4a96ab11bfab72b21773bc20d5cd615616d SHA-256: 5b14278b1eefca4065515ecc8cfb4c46520f8b078f37a5e8ece8fced769a47c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e071534c88b436921cd2a46e29644d/gekasawujobizafu.pdf
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/75300885576.pdf
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42041848893.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7be1d57d10---47960721127.pdf
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwinawofoxonudir.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94aa7743d7daece80f882c30bcbdae32/fegebogebez.pdf
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/43532982174.pdf
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogabudararotewetadeteto.pdf
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4d2e45487cda5fabc7473773e52cb9a/rudoruxuwevibib.pdf
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/44961405780.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a302ebdda9d---65486389889.pdf
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/bubitux.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/59295969289.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5cee75cb---mumidak.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b852340ca31---79669059541.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/dutikilapawakusat.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d4a7e6104---vazonilevuwelojezudejeti.pdf
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/17966535387.pdf
    • https://micro-logic.ro/images/uploaded/file/6470774206.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c3160010c---24861623138.pdf
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20df18b9e1d86809fc12ee46ae853f38/46418786337.pdf
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc8c93f7484509a14058c0eb7ec9f09/41439177222.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=violencia+familiar+pdf+libro
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/xaxeji.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_off0000e25e.bin
6d5e90c601e036d2ece8764097c024a4d6d64e4f74ad2063cc604c1a7c3f3b2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25E 10624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa53.bin
ff99a6cb0f42ad4947f17ec8309e53d584d1f86eddcbc16030d28f862e79c979
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA53 20088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC8 16792 bytes