Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fbf27f80bd67b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7aaa61d7729cc3dd364626b0a4ec2c27 SHA-1: f6f6e5c8187f7e930d0126463f4fb7f90095e49d SHA-256: 5fbf27f80bd67b06bc987623d36fbb1c28d808922dc77020bf2a221d399150db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests the primary goal is to lure victims to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d438ca79c40---63805366006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/51867624304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/66797309253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81864937794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/16897528177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwisevigatetezese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrisoilvietnam.com/upload/files/67170670640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/94028654393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe918fdfe342a35e4824dd1b2c4bc0d/kezofoletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37240787446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a535b6dab78---leforazabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7fe5abdec---tuxowugorafesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/wefidefeduzorekewipebipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161242a2fe62d1---movawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/36671003636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/89018724526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laderumilure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce985a957a---waroxobujaxanojutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7a5901a51ca3787908b3200faffe95/10951870065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b17a5f8bf05d8f2c77aaf13c7ad6ae/pajolagedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863092646ec---83130480698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2db15e2573---74644302435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/26048434989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/xulejoxipanevejolufesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=all+types+of+switches+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_off0000bb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB8D 14932 bytes
SHA-256: 014de2433cdf93df18aae7c2dfe85877ac9221989946ce90a7054181b5ba6e97
font_01_sfnt_off0000e13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13D 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 98579f7fa49919505db243ab92c3c488a95878256c8fdbfb684d7bacfc6e3447
font_02_sfnt_off0000f97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1