Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fcbba7c37f54d17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:19:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c017e90d57f84275e1003185247bf54b SHA-1: 20c5a110b90746c1840d818eb612b31efa8e024f SHA-256: 5fcbba7c37f54d17677ef552693d4cc994580a3caa2be2cf50ed09e6392f168d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/zalulonovimejojibo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/63175860026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/261721521960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/22642024048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f651bbb5ef0a7c06cb2496b3edd8184/nevotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070d07b7a199---59915572175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/69021159146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/45205989119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab567c1d968---rojovizadazanogupejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/tipazidifokipuwibezijewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608319e9e6be1---31332129674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81928423892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607843ae8a37d---rigewagivamojakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/vakubazodofibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee25de42c6---retutetawixixixujefagesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/ruvuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulikunosedenemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/98389852988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/76741932861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/31474280656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/51126542967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5de982173---fitoxatimokakovexelitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/pijipajimamegarivowetuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=classification+of+matter+pogilPDF 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_off00010684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E96 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 20c0599f84c283ffcab58094a0e35e51f5d5965c83704703802b14f38c8f2ed3
font_02_sfnt_off00014ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CCF 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 81c32ac468b17248f4704ea4e7271f07957b7a836d8eea4079cde2db2502da9f