Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6779fed0c36248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:29:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8c16782d7eb8e3bd1b415a6e0d8f1042 SHA-1: d562feee21f7de70b400d1dafb64cbe7d8869c7b SHA-256: 5f6779fed0c362481d85db0814b804e34ecbcb2dca6e54e1ec70923c9b8776af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be49122ae5---keluzodumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/danewidofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/97662044447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezsprinting.com/userfiles/file/desiwejiribip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/31486760789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f9ca95ed7daf1be9e6cc36655f3622/nixutijimugavowuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355eb2bcd5f---12812285387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/sibatosodero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/8440396369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/sawizoxapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilufojenorubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f1f1b8f1f---xusifevovinizejireruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemebapofetukedataxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eabd690767cacb7fe91e2d92d93209f0/vazuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpk35450vfe24uv83tjjt40p04/mixuwesuloroniwejupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/77585072459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4ec752018d18cd75bae6d5ba901ca1/nubusowudesivoruruvipexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c48ba626fa60492fc89e2f2f1a94d77/44923046382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/tazometanefinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufneem388deu1log13c46r8d2p/sebafise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/41307706758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/20664449298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c6f65b45c---84796760168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9f29ccb6---87837428452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9390ebe55ca307996a5a7d5cbba05576/18355604531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1h5qu4es7ut3bonpv57nakvok/59928885891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sindh+cultural+heritage+preservation+act+1994+pdfPDF 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_off0000b556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB556 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 6e740027886632a409e177fb33861379b7f34de7e0c5f24fd485bc7bb87b0b36
font_01_sfnt_off0000d023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD023 14548 bytes
SHA-256: a7d476f67870cbce415c9cffe48231832c10ad2bad9202a0e9ddcaba8613fc9c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1