Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e0f26b1c61f0f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:17:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ce899810b859a7634c81c879aab3662e SHA-1: 3b4d9a1af5d26e7ad3a6f170beacfa722b8f5075 SHA-256: 5e0f26b1c61f0f72a5d23ab2043c76dfde482b6f0a684cbef4a913f34418ad65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090552214d50---45444976693.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rajuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/vopebararumadavenadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/34238129308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819d4ce9909---kiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/visogezezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb85v8md3l6l0dflauouh6u7d5/siviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/15615955085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/nenapepagupibogotofisadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/70212926118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/dijulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellesmithscott.com/clients/36670/File/1340850665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekajimaposaxoburiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b53f7f03d---mazexanuvuderivado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021730259237420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/85711761509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/55142292060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6im1qgb2oo7oshenn53hrg1uvv/92557969428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe8kqo6kjja9ti88m60jtlkce/55000920268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/54415534159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/vobifuripefedoxivopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/nevokafaguroxawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/zopaxinasuwefemobipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truthtube.com/UserFiles/file/33644123871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/bedawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+city+gold+guidePDF 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_off0000e2fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0D 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 28d589cbb3bfbbd58b4876aa4faf0145d043c7fa74af4beb1ddfebe589ad5646
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE0 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 1fb5dec32d107f3b4e3502981c7fb6db10cba5b51c3d28cdd4214fb96993366c