Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d2229e50f0c32d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-30 00:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7ba597bc1c5561129d5efb55c2162df1 SHA-1: 2bf62bcc5952619fd1df4a25930585ecb1cacab1 SHA-256: 5d2229e50f0c32d3a6f63bfa9a086558e9b7667fe30ccd8f0625958a82088857
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external 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 multiple external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=house+of+cards+us PDF link annotation
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/49087829648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/94147160160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/putelepafifutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6cdac1df0---77180631540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujemamojadofexelokuwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34maklmv789lddont9kgc0jhgk/soroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b43891af42264d67c31198256d463d/96118171713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6b88a7eccb---dimufinifogodamasijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/31070337257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f822dae5827baed16fa68f12f7417d7/vuvewubamaretitutenefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents//files/9299553894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/4219784257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/wawamomeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/43133116035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/1700176064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/jopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/79039272720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7de2cb926---50523667424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aea2baf985---woralojobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4665ecd92540f1ab2b058ca4a1e0a79/59197717797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/20027299841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcityhk.com/userfiles/bozenolopuwamezubixeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/29331637474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF376 10220 bytes
SHA-256: c73cfdd28b28a4e3abe0430034e1fe1954feceb86658d8639fe877d2b0755c76
font_02_sfnt_off00010a83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A83 18660 bytes
SHA-256: 1aa98d18619f975df60bb91beb4109be9861365973e87eb00fe8bbee20b555de