Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5caa48e00f58f76a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a65ac378364c86a677097a618594810 SHA-1: 617d484798bfb22a18bd985999f881f705078bae SHA-256: 5caa48e00f58f76ae6669ae03d1ca4b253ac0157fb9ffecdd570781bddf51069
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, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, untrusted resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/67165863848.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/911f187992265d72182c568f856dee12/61940018239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/21090905182817868573h0uhvjxuvc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/bajapisisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390ebaf31833bf887cd7ffec05678ef1/tumiraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/1432483108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue0g14aabdqdoaav355gc38dkv/givepabasoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8fdc3d7bb9aac7e664d0c5a21af109/foxitetagutuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/6539341524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210901135304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/valuxebami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/gazujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12612795980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_9B1D755C4D968CE4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katour.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukavixanunanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/59953697905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/xunotusiwetukexogegoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/tavipuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d731c7f1a94e77c0d4deb2b359569a/33549084096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/41135807498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137759b03b8d---butudude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/givadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=phone+karne+wala+appPDF 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_off0000de62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE62 18324 bytes
SHA-256: a70b9e653d03074e0b4e0cf15a29c2c1775696e09fd4ef9783be271d28a9f23b
font_01_sfnt_off00010e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001261f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261F 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 62413183d6262592dba012e30429e6fa54c9b03e090bcad10cd99d9d3d57c87e