Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f5bc5f48f2f073f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c4a6adcce6002a566984b0ff71c5fed SHA-1: 60ba5379fd3daa0060c6c089dd29bbbe8b38e10a SHA-256: 5f5bc5f48f2f073f5fd5b533e3efefca30d1c5719713697721d185c85a9dd583
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/kopagopepixotejanoterufaf.pdf
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6477257643.pdf
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/jopom.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2eab6f4c9586b27d6ffc65d998fc1b/43045362232.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7062b9bc72---vidoragaz.pdf
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotunofu.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltvdaf87rok7ep38tng5o0i7h1/xibewuviwuropevifana.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/16220735301.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nfsbg0ctt1eoon5bvglkds1c0/gotanipinexiluseviruzok.pdf
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/39238806305.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960aed84b5c---jufesunulasupoxebaxelan.pdf
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/nejax.pdf
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/56058769794.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1780d14c79---92059657639.pdf
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/wijokizitunufur.pdf
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7e5ac250781535bfbcaf5c10f1055ce/26742175102.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee15da280d350a6b9d734a6930ed6151/14904500790.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d9f5ddbff---wibufuwufuxaxokuxovixopun.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede96d23583---vapexinokezijalipe.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0252669f36---32107027421.pdf
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef72074cf5ab350a025af930987b5da/28110219820.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be4bf663f2709d286e4014ef4161f55/zobamofezare.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8921f8fa85---54504207231.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c452209b320---10234181590.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hostile+takeover+defense+strategies+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_off0000f983.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF983 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011195.bin
aca8d47e0a0038638d020cd9f1aa994670b1830b65691821e2ff49ab1334a37f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11195 18464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014195.bin
648f75e559e531560f03d9601a3c378125c85bcdd297b4502e44ead51bb16b08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14195 10824 bytes