Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e01897228bdfa97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e8767c84c1ce32354fa1a0f4f1ad2877 SHA-1: aedad8992471eefb80f9f6b631e7ba15a9eeba37 SHA-256: 5e01897228bdfa97a1f1b1ced5cad3b72c6b064596a9d6e8e83700cb70238572
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tricia+lange+rick+and+morty PDF link annotation
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/54469604561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be104e21988---59468861265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f974fa452f---rovesozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/bekipaximoxotikobipuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/61593135794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/57276907453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisnordmedical.fr/docs/file/89235482541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db524891b0e---69392844845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d709e0f3183e496b86a57f02184df20e/79897284379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/zerebawodovixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d391b9b7b3b---95170174831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/99424074361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/83117502343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/50635225060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents//files/4325092843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c8bd3791f---8829917474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bfe32febe---lugavanimomuxodame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/zitukukoneguvonefedubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d08bd30caf---rasajiduvogisala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86491651133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e7c216338---60263429223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/52321850645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eventoptik.de/upload/files/73770555661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44263eb2114556b672a27adb6c46110/bukafuva.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_off0000c56d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7F 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 9562ba650c1d77a69b76d9cb4120af1177dadf0af96437dde2b12182cb45fbde
font_02_sfnt_off00010a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 10712 bytes
SHA-256: bf85c17692b584480d951cc2f2eafcd0dee83805bfbf90cc67f1e857add809a1