Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ed80bd23756697c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e43b16ff47ab24f9887e6687dfd7dc01 SHA-1: cb2b78f49e77fdb6c355e67b161d8a7cd695af02 SHA-256: 5ed80bd23756697cdc1812f2b48cfc09318683030f4b994bbbc532e1787926e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users via a malicious attachment to these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+pathophysiology+mccance+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxafilenarebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7e2ee48da6---38122516274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161200cf28ecc1---49349112981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/neguzadabofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/39353137962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ponderosaclassof1990.com/clients/d/d5/d5d19f6fc184e1fdd834fc62be9f1763/File/55500055062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/92173080129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43197095781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/rawatixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/45042427472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608647f26abdb---97005997033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/gegiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/74646675510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841898c1af1---pikosokufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39982246074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c9b0ec3969dcc0518b75646241cf83/11155058425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs6v27lvausaqnfcohoh31bpo7/lidokumeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22cef8356e3b9a72804ecd6821d5837b/rizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b33ff788c262fde89a63bc212bee85/93007402363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049105d2534458059a9f269388a5f5e1/80548052390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab173de8cda---80185258044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD856 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF068 17264 bytes
SHA-256: ced5258714d0a53843b45505bc522bda69da82abb293bd5739de2c23bad191f3
font_02_sfnt_off00011d45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D45 11188 bytes
SHA-256: accca7f13663f581e57204930d6abd694dbb8fa697e4652e0d8118dc74f8ba69