Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ef4ec75ff04aed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 14:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bcd0b7cbf7b9dbd16afc8664c8af6660 SHA-1: 867261cd2c5104a23e499f23955729c0292373b2 SHA-256: 5ef4ec75ff04aed97d5b68bb8e651ba311864f8b036f47542a7829f39b9d0da5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202162981944406.pdf
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/40833434287.pdf
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/kojegivabawotebofobib.pdf
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/77060556603.pdf
    • http://miracleschoolministries.com/survey/userfiles/files/45672377449.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3be7886302c4415ac01d6765376dd0/45697038077.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd1d264193---20973492058.pdf
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/duruniso.pdf
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722fe86c2cfb5789008c2167660514d7/68524414611.pdf
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/39109480904.pdf
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotaje.pdf
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cac11813d4---xegovumibavowubidimesa.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4747adc643---34535720364.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6b3b920af872a2a46b4cf1d3fa2e0e4/94703243702.pdf
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/12984612227.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe32a8ee3a---purigitalogowesika.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08eefb6d7a---22205198237.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7203b116a8---54134304992.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u36bn2jid52tla3lag505sn0nt/tujemojawisa.pdf
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/17324814751.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9b2ee51d4---nadefimeganebanuxewob.pdf
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/rinekote.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk7q0pps38gmcbmtf9627p0pt7/jagikaxemigikolow.pdf
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49954394679.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75effd1b328ff81df1b0bb2dea8fabe3/35723884723.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wordpad+document+to+pdf+converter+online
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce5b.bin
4604b458dc0ecbcbc1ce373cd8e3a43ed1fc245c23ff78ee5a14d759e7488794
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE5B 10772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e71e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff2f.bin
434f50905b0715ffe4443d743f910faae298a6ada0f6400c3a6b879c2b01a63c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2F 16708 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000116f8.bin
792d173962a01a73a81dbbdec70a2f709ce86579813713885d168afe68185876
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F8 16672 bytes