Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ead2d1c6e52e4fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 08:41:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f07c442c8668179ab5bceed7adb22e75 SHA-1: 52a245a9b31eff7f988ac0a8555b2fc5ae274e4c SHA-256: 5ead2d1c6e52e4fdc72fcccfbe43a67d68b12ca504cb47d3a7dd941fd09eec04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the document's structure suggest an attempt to lure victims to external malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/ledomosovuse.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15793943330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cc0fc3851---lidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da1254a7ea45758f5bfdf4b35ba4ff1f/48884077508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a310aed4059978bc7a273ed6b404f560/koxukobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsbicentennialclassof1976.com/clients/c/c2/c283bfa2537a82fb79a670aa087b4bd4/File/60105030718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abakus-routing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusuvigetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/viwasokofiletadelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/kezuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490bac5ec3---niwaxejivodubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tir4vaqs60oac48mra05ofbbf/zowogagipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/32983042918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl259u56bkn62i8upbdelf1p56/xeranadafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098322c3c5b9---gofiwifima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewimofajolibeposigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll6uhbvnb3g8rksn5ntgkqpoa6/zigawizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94f7f29f209c9b30878e2f699a356ff/tolunabutovidebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/zaveveganizonixosafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9041b0e40f---10060009601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/32106714505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d09f78c6ad557d1702b607c8316f1a/71951696854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol5b4ndunh4l698b032v9tpat3/22142304441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/nanumizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pay+back+forPDF 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_off0000ef91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF91 19344 bytes
SHA-256: 15bd31f9180f10a31cddb714d3d5ca43c02cd129b563679a9007cf67dc0168ad
font_01_sfnt_off0001227d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A94 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 527d2a0e59b80c98136a7ab9650df3dce215c83d4a225c881e986e3d5f8f4d8e