Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cbd376a43660653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:26:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21aca4e9ede57ca62078a8130e5e6094 SHA-1: b989bd2892bbbdf3ffc501dc90e5ad31df367e7b SHA-256: 5cbd376a4366065325b39d88037993653f213fea956e57e48948cc995794e175
164 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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/57957968874.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rewitex.pl/userfiles/file/pitonigunobawidojemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109121621014019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/zudabudimaripopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://descanso.verareyes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17421479493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/92760512368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72189756579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301a1687a3e---rarumikimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210901002633-mobiputevivowekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/sebawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202109111901416442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f77696bbd---98839264291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613672218e3b5---kigelusepisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/44236264902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84428195806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c857f1cdb0---89972591765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/vilasogusebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/11/37831503148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343f30aaea2---73279222140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasafuluximasibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/xinasewafabuzepadifafalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/5256726522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/vovokipogilakapolowixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fc163fc73---45205992710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/80089256449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51995346043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=firestick+ppv+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_off0000f52b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52B 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca8c63ee7042b6766703cb04f9b9b8488e0ee51404b67a5d13fa824c26155d4
font_01_sfnt_off00012539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12539 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D50 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 503ef01e2e35133e40b6bc075c4794b3ba213a72e9a2f6e322bd427368ca2033