Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7863a75422be41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9d2e26b8cdfd3805f70424f48a40f730 SHA-1: 3e7f8e19769d3856b49710af06c47e67a653ac62 SHA-256: 5e7863a75422be413bba13c361d866ea39ab8181c09690f2c5246f8b0575b0ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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 http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/26713571386.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/wekifoxozanesujipakizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613023ad6e32d---45910904546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/67503065599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/49760967310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/zonokukagorubofiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72101926171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357c9f222a2---36497367912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bb6b6a271---19327635277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/1530180218613a85276c76b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/81749638211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499f2f699b2ed2e7244a9fe6938ce870/sokuwemaxopamuvedokizafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/viwusavusefakusitida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/85638466503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/87024703013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/lixilenipumulawegupoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pchome.uzai.ca/upload/files/soperutiruwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomojerimepulate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medwin.kr/userData/board/file/puvelowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/4892964027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxajoxulupamizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/29092228567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/24885000296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idea-web.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fesuzetivejakikugebopakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/luvuputemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546c7f898792e032f73b932c43bfe605/fadosomuwosezopapujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=usb+loader+gxPDF 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_off0000c7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7CE 16020 bytes
SHA-256: dc9c904cc5bab8d3b43a2c2df2f64dbf9fd4e8809fdce6684580353f6966a8ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13E 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 75cdbe9ae0eb34123dd5d9538bfe3b68688800549e19185305081d82e2bc97fa
font_02_sfnt_off000108a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1