Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d285f5e789951c57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a5b8a7f7b54e54ee68a232fd92883344 SHA-1: b73801df974a5443690ae717c0b439a5105fc5fd SHA-256: d285f5e789951c5713851629306185709f086ef1aeb506bd63a75d84447800d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, utilizing compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting to obscure the true destination. The embedded URLs point to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting a distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/261029588103.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://masonlegacy.org/clients/61515/File/53837317367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f064523040c7f661c2666d1d622c028d/29790051766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/guwuvugakule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c385644b2---35114216783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6f85b2e12---97916409049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/16364950196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8948544100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6660f611b9a0e9dc64bb694b943a14c8/66547795074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a28028843a---4809030490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ae9a353e1---xarisikutulapeporiduvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3a367ff7d---tutinogapituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/16241493685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607176288ae34---47136345081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/42933243086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/99398502464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/94267258764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s7qlft0bkuhrc6q715lml39q4/befexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/61534978404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07442d21102f8a6d3013d486abb30fa/88352812028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/gixowajirupusapuvozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da9qiqmrdjv5mhrts4dteg373/71318996085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/24201893314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/nurakatidumoruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084246340738---rirenoberoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=today+in+arabicPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000143bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BD3 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 157325f99e655b39b0924d2a0160d10f1007b144319892dd495fdbc64bd98907
font_02_sfnt_off00017288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17288 20084 bytes
SHA-256: 5011279cd09e65d9cf2603b15af4a6dae2edd3695364bdaa952f91dc0785a123
font_03_sfnt_off0001946d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1946D 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 8dc53c252c54104b3f4ee78cf2d95771e866abbc53988c2cec110e462073c924