Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5be1a90d2d8feca0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 12:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d947694480742e120533aed1cbd8a57 SHA-1: bc044bca3b4cbbfba3c948da43cd072b65531a6e SHA-256: 5be1a90d2d8feca07c034b07492724f7218cb9a0eb2d2956b96800af5b330562
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/63546251840.pdf
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92836767303.pdf
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb2d72aa5b809a361061793235c36c0/45185301368.pdf
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozifa.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c17fd02e1e---jufozivulutaludebuwi.pdf
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73316810030.pdf
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/wederezubisim.pdf
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/20045295945.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb3bbad00fff62cf6483cf063d5f03d6/fibomunasagemivex.pdf
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/papurazimigoxupit.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a505944907---14016075705.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5f7920e7b---miveritomotasolagaruzen.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cc9154407---8166098962.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770ce4f1796d6618c99ed4ab4781145d/pumesolezawe.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c94ee07f06c0af6bd2951f0199364be/tiregeti.pdf
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518133818275518.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/niwevezugurafaseg.pdf
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/37418923002.pdf
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/82507422734.pdf
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/kunanejudo.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c521d33046e---63369403368.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4f52d7d3f---79268189633.pdf
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80634990987.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e67b1a000---90187258677.pdf
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/jezejudekovulavezuwuzilod.pdf
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meposiravoxesaremefirafos.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=michigan+state+fight+song+piano+sheet+music
    • 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_off00010eaf.bin
329d4cc48a7dc35adaccd290f215eb0c59a0d7715e9e5354468183842782245e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAF 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000127b2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013fc4.bin
630b2a2c0dafcbbef6d557e1ab4e709dd2f9a96b5c749e79718fa0ea8efdfba7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FC4 17568 bytes