Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5331475286857db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a2312c2694e778a2c30eebf2a5c0bea3 SHA-1: 469623e8c99effbdd8f503b2034f04616f722ce3 SHA-256: e5331475286857db57b8a90413e35e192e39c08f8e72b313cfac9597a1f543f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download a payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection indicate it likely serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatizixuvupoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/78093681212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011316ea7bd140319d0defb15771fd77/36163332888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/30845103957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39230251033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12904150186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/15712401228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/nenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55621952466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020816384f8e937dca2452e8dba13160/86673709425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311fd5b8234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd882d4785af2f2474d0f8520087ae56/kenevizuropof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbontuning.ru/file/popizetotaresubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redivumixeraxuwemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytokin.ca/upload/editor/file/dikipokugajunoximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/jijemazuvivaxumiropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fia55ttdqug45kuojmgv7urtdv/13232342168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909070621895785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-tlg.com/files/file/21105302352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/miwomavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huuphongplastic.vn/uploads/images/files/2320220356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/44859665503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37909227946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/vizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82445463809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=wings+mod+minecraft+pe+downloadPDF 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_off00015108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001691f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1691F 11040 bytes
SHA-256: d7206e4d981fe45da79b1044cdc753d59c50cb7d817e8886ef9f13e82db93edf
font_02_sfnt_off0001829c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1829C 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 8d1dd7b27a3974e15cec3e1fb6e299c194296049ef7d5beff3b9baaf73821d2c