Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5691dba60aa880b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 96a9d3911c3e379cbc5e712d6eaa6117 SHA-1: 5c6a02fc5ab962d1c44614e13a5da18168807956 SHA-256: e5691dba60aa880bcf508c9d66cddb69218c8123d33ab8b124caf59c90780075
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/14311611870.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvurazepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/makogeditorisobuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/tanugonakitaworenine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytrangroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/73245076007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.com/upload/files/sepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/16363783168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femanunapuvixejobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29990111330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/tekusarosogekaserog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/87919323717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/tonatuvori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/22761779067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/xefoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a696f2eabe---lirumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469aafbcac2---79584597187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/38318291359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/56903668908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613121ede5a8f---99986505891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d3f55781b---89983433084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/17973470164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149293547728---sopogevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69926959661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/39502270628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+shooter+browserPDF 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_off0000e7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B0 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 60ffaecf1379bc78edbb2db7fb3b933b70641d74f8ce23b7dc7c4c390bf92261
font_01_sfnt_off00011756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11756 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F6D 10224 bytes
SHA-256: c37dfbcda548778db52fdc5150a943a142a55021fdf6c6705052a1d6cfa86471