Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e209b25920f22b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 02:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 03b0237edf45a176aab8afbcf5c4cbb1 SHA-1: 66ea99b926f8ea5d1dc78f2ca6bf2046df990502 SHA-256: 5e209b25920f22b43dd8449ed889d09ce40c43ff21a6c9d6f7b7eae79512006e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive content, likely leading to the download of further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=korean+made+simple+1+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b924555ae9b---58975698973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l7skr9luh543i12hsqf09292k/49535248903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e065eb5276---nubipetesunudamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa98d157668---bidexori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d891ac959---55000194641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7b4358a65---59865268664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f95e0433f5fc37574386683c1a1c8353/50835890421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb75716594---16070414324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/peguvakaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3fd75d870---mepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/sevipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samyenngochoang.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk6an48asti2n8ttvdlt1ldbsj/13511691225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/pawejubedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1f2a83cee---75530875468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/kemotibazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61383a62378d5597be18442773d4c943/12983096323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD367 5300 bytes
SHA-256: b4b5f78dfc7a8e30a6e171198a8570b60b7648f93b23539804e7ffcebd9e7d32
font_01_sfnt_off0000e576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE576 10904 bytes
SHA-256: ed9ffe10ba8ded2b1a804b9d27a6f5739a1ce005b766d258c5c4fbc470a9385b