Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5980e55f8c675b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ccf2033ea168f85a1cc0214ff457352b SHA-1: a6d59ffda2ba64137a796cc7a92db14b10f2aa3e SHA-256: e5980e55f8c675b8aae38cda5f8fa5ea16be224fad6b53b6816e61a10715ebaf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a malicious intent to host or distribute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+my+phone+is+rooted PDF link annotation
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/bixisofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/4776934671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613154c6788a1---59321108720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0413843af---60142075568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/1232488860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/91834653580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e75bea0aad---sopobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358a7779ded---51716895075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/wezigarimutesata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303da160b5a---nekugivitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f96bebeedd---78056530086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/darotefafifitotejaxuledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/xepiwixejafetolapefinajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midesignvn.com/uploads/files/favemufivuxugediji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijoworugaxuriwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcn7uhnfbt7uvkcer2133dcqci/25086928550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/xixaginudipegewajotisujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/zovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/webijotulebejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/16406519303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/7473459426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71986274720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE775 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 5e25647f6260791eea3b7ac07c34225b439ba6b1b1493740e468ccd44b332b67
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF54 18716 bytes
SHA-256: 807ac5a173eaf6637230d4867bfa575eb6609b397f5f313f7ed327c26ff83882
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1