Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ee83a271fc30a4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-22 02:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c80f0b7a8033e817b810d47e2fd852be SHA-1: 48a1603792573ae674178bc0eff5058e36dffc24 SHA-256: 5ee83a271fc30a4a214ba4c929b504c533681aa67d0b389b7a107f6b5f4b880a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://polkovnik.su/upload/file/44155773351.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/47633693870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4tohobtbvnh0jehgng6i6r075/gidulixikikusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/zuzonarubebavesisovuwimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/butem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/28164997945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/jisegapawoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj223llul2fim03n8gjdacoeck/10984199369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69843060723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0d050133ea6c6fb9851ef5916cf239/fewurefibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/lelutafarelovorivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/zadefiluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/fomasekedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/99154896132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208gll1i83tf92ni6qco92m37s/36242473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e594e1c463b---xapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/fuvezowidopeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/37586601925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cujhr727qkandf2etdcidg34/vulovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/bakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/xunuvudelibamupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/37305268478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c445f2ab7---wezaxejibizolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e78c6e5c389---47851435217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=lecciones+biblicas+para+ni%C3%B1os+de+halloweenPDF 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_off0000e2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AA 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 87ff277086d382e6cda273c7f0c3a42e717c705f13869bd62437732e9562ada9
font_01_sfnt_off0001110c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110C 10904 bytes
SHA-256: d3e4d259b396ceb5958a48a58eb2adf8d6f9f078d2eceaf6510591928017339e
font_02_sfnt_off000129c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1