Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e920671dd243d86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 12:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9c0482deb03df0ff9f71c4e6b2212b13 SHA-1: 133087006ef97bb632cb9e03047dfade4ca840fd SHA-256: 5e920671dd243d867b0382c85d8622f24121ebc1b2e7ef941136f0c121e2fcba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/82214227572.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5822c2a55717322c067046c918e2d8/22856506903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ba25ff2039309c67548c1da0a6b235/zezezegijinosojazisugaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/97030803832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/mojopobajojojaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c6792716e---karojulosagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4fd0ef7447700f98deaf1209a071f1/xagafineziwusomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87c72d8810---80714560811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/43244927004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f06f1df9d---30499521249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n118stp9s0s7h4bb1e9cug5dfd/jokozomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a387ad3fe8b46a71ddb0b8fc8b977d/74655636481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29556890551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/dowejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/84175646102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/77109077764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12733f7ea17709b6b059d51d97b313f3/47089124983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd523231d8---85603396536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/65183310714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f556e79c291c77bf0882809d4849bdbf/80963686098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d982114d827d314fd0186505f43e9d7f/15995116522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/64990080840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210621233716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ae3e77f8a---novupikotunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7b2855a4b---27701791915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=all+about+king+tutPDF 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_off0000eea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA8 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 881cc0877ba6850b33554e81fc8e0264a8241149d42c2101a4b34c629e451c6c
font_01_sfnt_off0001059b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059B 16920 bytes
SHA-256: afc94a9aedc6b1d9306aea76cf699152087cc2d50b73bc5a2c3d5ad53dff7e5b
font_02_sfnt_off00013197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13197 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1