Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fc3471da35400ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-08-01 13:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 847a3fabb80378342b13ba7a20ae6a9d SHA-1: 83c020cbee2e56cfe2eae47bfdf14b396b4302a7 SHA-256: 5fc3471da35400ea93b54c9338446ff7c488041e0c8a4a48028aa577659a28ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely intent to facilitate phishing or distribute further malware, potentially via JavaScript execution within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xerox+workcentre+7855+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/pinoxigafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad2863438a73e08f538f03072c0b75a/47604245615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf383553b7625081997e2b727781864/jonizegipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/27193017531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713acd002af---fasiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e1561487b6475f23a952fb5733bd8f/bonazujuseluzalapunamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/46278034065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce908f82b89---82171898037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/varorubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6545462791ec9dc4c064736ea376b58/bojidifotobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a241ba9412e---95411443740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e39379a8bdf---revixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c473e19c3f5---pelago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83788537058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/28850779219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bmh37c3r7etavs4sbsulsjpt4/dipebotininot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/jowozuwiwirofezajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78f63cec2a38c16567bf4c4429556752/16949185102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tuqp48do95homr24tk2iefh5h/jinebejig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaaff060095---47224414252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/lodidenonajujeteweposerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3qhj654e4ni1vbsk1smrm5c1/voxokopetawugazozizove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c924b3c5581---31781516774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210721204430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5FC 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 65ab084c27b6a11149a5e613fd6b451001e825c82fef68c62050d29dd1f02792
font_01_sfnt_off0000f389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF389 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA0 11080 bytes
SHA-256: f8d384617f93e87e4b7749a845e77d29907a2690106d9d694c292be5592c1497