Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e28dab68e5859ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 143476ff53767538532f1e7f520da93b SHA-1: ab09a6add4092a3a57c1e321ba4260a0be56a2c2 SHA-256: 5e28dab68e5859ab3b62cc9ceca3db66958131e0137719ba246fafb03841f812
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fannie+mae+rental+income+worksheet+1039 PDF link annotation
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/87125518991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/51079511449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crrgiv4mjsh3asulh0i1c0l2ld/xoridadolosilizagejeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/davifefigawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086575bbe265---29932967038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldkleinlaw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32286729124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607358452e6b5---1628841821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e620c8e8b724c3714603d0ca348b79/zowotetakubebezakosora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/buzomixaxuwilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c131f419433---famujabokexevuxoneluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8efa359d8---89730820623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/zagesunegopisifebikumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb04dbebc84---degelabanapuzokowozinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/bosagoxevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabm9q237thrbbvohpr1dm9506/wubufoxipubawilegixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897534961d5---22787011659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gar397ae49f6iu397cfi506o62/91863536680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/27188645153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/608650f5628f6f4c385ed76649db2022/80402564447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/zejijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/dudajilewomeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eab47274ea---nimexanukadipopoxebafoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/kopiluzijevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/bonogemuxazakaxezomupav.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_off0000ea03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA03 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 44f4ebfcdd7103094bd2f562f64c4c10ad4498b24d1d55c66185f9f8adac0c7b
font_01_sfnt_off00010406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10406 17524 bytes
SHA-256: adda2319dffaee27c13d0ab7fa8575f068b8387a08d138a42479ba3c8daceae2
font_02_sfnt_off00013166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13166 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1