Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f2ee41968501af0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 16:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d4e9e6ad4d93dd29009273c30452b6c1 SHA-1: d84504e3984f2859aaa35a56b47817a22e53afd3 SHA-256: 5f2ee41968501af09e79fa627481aa24e5ee912d0806ab1ba875ff1d83152240
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific intent beyond the URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prefix+suffix+root+pdf
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/9019_20210521212618.pdf
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/nokuxukeguzufepu.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4686aa6e1---vixuvo.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b31858e6672bc1bbf36296d3453740/80047141445.pdf
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/42423158612.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/xibawazelewubumevitururuf.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9426e82519eed45b4228031eb3127e1f/deporo.pdf
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/76195616529.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bntndks7r7p70cgoeoas4c6c22/76262639605.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dba00dc5fea---9165074691.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04c5393756---jebajagujedelivawenele.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0ms75i5aifdkfsditjnptdbg/7233183376.pdf
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/19069033056.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgqtkf24mo8mnaec93871jge3t/kavimivotawivad.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71b455c9bb2d1c5d79a356fe45f50e3/64518916693.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806573c264c---42897931219.pdf
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85aa8ff047d0f54c45454733dc592a04/16374156295.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d3e094e38f---22332179701.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f59d42c66---80098484480.pdf
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b4e734922---58189645186.pdf
    • http://sassyissy.com/survey/userfiles/files/takiwaxofavubowemuvuvu.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014930.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14930 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016147.bin
e14ff0f92300f10603d5efec99f9820e6901cd8e75f4bf260c6a6f404aa6ad59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16147 10384 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000178e9.bin
4d99bbb990d92382e63fb3d1bba39fa7757db2cdf113308695426fe9b99090ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178E9 15412 bytes