Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e16b280c43e79ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 393f2e8fc5e080793d404fc87065506b SHA-1: a86366cca11ff1029593154ced8a997203a53d8a SHA-256: 5e16b280c43e79ab8a8767007bd6f07a961a35dfa092720067eb921bea120879
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://szwygs.com/upload/78279789074.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400ee0bca942a49c6cc5aef5bc1e13b3/44739064890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bbba35e12f0e995362140613d4c15e8/57385502912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/gesaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufibomamizuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735c72e7290c99569487c7d13cf2fa45/mexabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/nomaveromevejatezuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50juh0dkjktf1pf2a82hh95qis/munatudajufiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7577d94fce45e06290932fe5f1b6a3f2/fukiberevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/47368578686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdd1d9996d---tafijofikozirafifutezedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bae95592a---67937041892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu7l3k81g705ikich9437h4mn1/ruzivumilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd94bae2b5---44159973691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i3mit.com/shopadmin/upload/files/10106975731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/nesojokawatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/20533441382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/niwojutogijazofovijuxanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74788763597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/demulojetemoxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/pufutelawasigibomeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s79fbolilvfph3ejke0eq5m7e7/98508217619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlc1r0f5mr0mtnnli6f89e2s17/48849547458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac3dfe0474---59870113748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=yearly+health+check+up+listPDF 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_off0000e999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE999 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6fac59d0910829432d1b12dc1c92b808d93d5625837047d2f4aeaf7be7efd1
font_01_sfnt_off0001186c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186C 10536 bytes
SHA-256: c0f255293775b27b62bc698875f11683a08b7039f257c6ad6171c910023e9b2e
font_02_sfnt_off00013095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13095 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1