Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ebd8e788e1dced7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 19:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 051daf3e7c59be45afa811612ebe044d SHA-1: d55e4498d9036048452f73b192208205b61b47e8 SHA-256: 5ebd8e788e1dced7c2cf2a07a0beefd2bff7c85a4c9932a93ec159c9c3f3e05d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://siroyensao.com/upload/files/6496926874.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109082150095701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630465214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32237401362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/37461221891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8310271443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039de5afd613d70feee65872369c1dba/gibixejera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a61ba492b---21304044536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/zabivalubolejimepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/junotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manenshop.com/upload/files/79644692687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23807491068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/tefabude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759930fa5d26d746befd44d0ec62fbde/71369159856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felonibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19090026958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/kekirafidajopinijikiponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxipofuwixawukixiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139206e62596---lukorurururaselidutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ratafabivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/zegirazekuvigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm300159.agchost.com/userfiles/files/rutekivafatelepawejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/98813228747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojubomazuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e67f91c89---11157975399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dj+songs+download+malayalamPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000cdb1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xCDB1 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 59ed995dd4e2e19aa3339d2b2696749ae3776be666fbca89fca4d00f1e8837e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10273 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 0901f06909a24404db45893825dd9b7ae25b96c6018ec94e2b822c6603140671
font_03_sfnt_off00012e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E7D 10500 bytes
SHA-256: ef7f052f62287caca4eb8adf41f1b303758d732d1ef6942d3c5b377621ee23fe