Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5faed1b89a9c6125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5ec969224ae2336e9aa992426a3c3e7 SHA-1: 3090483197ec4f514bd416dee38d783f5129030a SHA-256: 5faed1b89a9c61251e31737cdecf62da690d855892245b38c632646ddc288c2a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, likely to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The presence of a download button lure further supports a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9434194fb7068cfe9424ea0b953da20/59713561383.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db1f3a3744d4611a287a8c461ceda5e/ditefojer.pdf
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_817D05747689009E.pdf
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/71848439592.pdf
    • http://atiksigorta.com/files/34831789750.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5o3qgjgpm8n9opvnbckp73dsp/basidonanifewifewowite.pdf
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridazinufirabiluki.pdf
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/japuzixevanifipib.pdf
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210612202734_sof57p.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5213008c1---sinutuj.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c590d72d2---kesinakidijomuj.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53cd409381c7a8ffaf204bc9642ae67e/73063523984.pdf
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c497ba6d901ac9bff36aa66b01d863/17704634192.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnokuo6qk5th2vp82v7c3re3q4/xuxiza.pdf
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/48517315081.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/wonusafomige.pdf
    • https://kenadong.com/contents//files/pimowaxatirun.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/7314438993.pdf
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/nevosop.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lisj602cna556benr0pvlb7r17/vefivajanikudosidogik.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dfcf6c63b---mesitaluxipisovovup.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/zejuviwizopokexotetolabep.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/78843399653.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=solid+state+physics+ashcroft+solution+manual+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_off0000b991.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB991 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1a8.bin
8bf3b725adae491c30f006058320ca9dfc78357dd6ea0425fae74e77041a5d42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A8 11176 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb94.bin
6863843b5926db6b4d8dedf8a00dd8627adaa609128ba5f97f6c660cca2e13dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB94 15440 bytes