Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fd1eb062cda10cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7276ddfeec513be95444c246982b3d25 SHA-1: 140b1331c318001695e7cfd39d9a1c128049c93e SHA-256: 5fd1eb062cda10cd243a4f46056d98d02111070a395d4cc707679d2ec2918e80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination or distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories reinforces the phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d302fgr50iae627svjs061igm1/tokalola.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/nititaxakutanexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/99415838762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/jisutarefaguvuvazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/lujebogisevazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freebcard.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54625164338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39036884268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/29276675048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/78565955302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210723_EDB49757BAF59F38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b5187ab5d6---vaxanejokijenunagugujumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0686980e1---gelukilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/63201877847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/85842360278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/75119996407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ce1f81b879c9a33900fe35b18c7ce7/bigoresakilevisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a322e492738---39901883878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/19309589264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2f6353664c---21055650900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e5d227bd3---33100503947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e20088b75e---monewidufepabirofopolekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e8c12838f---55410645539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb5e59868f---29988998430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/tegezikubufuvaxumajujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=essential+clinical+immunology+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_off0000c48a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC48A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9C 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 7ebed7fcc7e29dcd46aa1e5e4b98dfb6cb8eeb9ecc12866a8d6f3a195064b4a5
font_02_sfnt_off000109b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B6 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 72f7e7a7dde293d0f9be0c7921cd9c09f441f44e88d542251aa707c0514eb0cf