Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e420e8bea6b295c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4ff2e3008c9276f21547b222b125ff84 SHA-1: b831f3ed16438565d325b8542b7445a84fce7fb3 SHA-256: 5e420e8bea6b295cdd706d2d38add9fba9c9b5e18a7f55c1465cec2ab75bb924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by multiple heuristics as a malicious PDF, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier flagging it as phishing. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/69448914922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6933199088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/tajitorubimogipegagurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/tarovibivobadovipifujigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/68386126707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl9aqes2v6bf81rs6ltdc6ddir/61619169279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/48103763529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79112607862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/vokijidavatuguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611adf53f03ad---59084523785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/vikifozufogezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/tawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc90782e48---wuxarogiwaxunejebanatumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/mepokasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/sigubajawobetobuxutubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents/files/14460585919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/jafubifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/lojedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c9896d79e---wesobefagoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/4377988581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/zojakewewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/84604467374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/79746423399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej6gcdtvm52vka20nou3s29vsi/7240063402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=oscillatory+motion+definition+and+examplesPDF 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_off0000da1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1F 20500 bytes
SHA-256: d806b21dbd8d965bb6009311277a51ab6194c038d2db65cb1d03324c8041deaa
font_01_sfnt_off00010e69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12680 11020 bytes
SHA-256: e20f7ba7c188ab2cc243bf5deaad4c562b46659be66ab552d81c562e1224cddb