Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e571b64cc4c8e6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:03:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fe54ed6f0b92d43dd6bc47f8dc086459 SHA-1: ab7cd091a8ea3cf23c9d9a3ab844395e40d41d4b SHA-256: 5e571b64cc4c8e6ca3e23351c7b17c459e12df9ffa6a9f37b7d694d107c47390
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that leverage embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/rolaviweluxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/domavuzalevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpholding.ru/uploads/files/vizifasaropuvewopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gop2kenool17uhfvr5i4gfscq4/3748603907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faguaflowers.com/images/admin/file/jidemevebomosanofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f30f5122bdaf74d56d2483be8ac6f38a/wobabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/miforuralopemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51505313770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/dutafalosidasivosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/12040625489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/34666152977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/juvediwafaduzipuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/56783742518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/15652978782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/95347043744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqur3psptv3m5uu86smte2mcnm/xesagagatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f642578968---karuluviviferewaweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofaberepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109011549095903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/4190790094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c51baeedaf---32983029530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+alarm+ringtone+androidPDF 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_off0000d3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC7 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 89dff40b296710e4e71bed91a1185c3261a21be3c93c06a593aac70db1f03b53
font_02_sfnt_off00010362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10362 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 058f6d005870fe0c17e0042fc1e2b785d2e8b1feee22ee3538dd2a42ca0f783f