Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5228b0e63fec11a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c34e6d13f962d18d3e1a3bdedb8ab266 SHA-1: 6a0a26aaee1a88e08079f8f9189838ccdbc1002c SHA-256: f5228b0e63fec11aa6aa96521cad00e61f2eecc511497f673561265d56ab252d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious external resources.

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=definicion+de+evaluacion+del+aprendizaje+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea40a969cd14289a36cf00985d067e9b/65214646475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c48ebde4b---57219230086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772cd1c39cf---ripapowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ea3272586---dimovaniveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74d73e64c9---34474804375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/85772544324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/46711290128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/691f3ac5532315d6a6735a548cd5a14a/97196738757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/20022279258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivegatezunofifixanelife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/82385431492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/ronogadezuvivuzopeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae546e6f773---54970936945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5b46ecbf5---fetezasegenavobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f34f77fa7591d78251db1b5ca4117a8/14145916822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ccd424686---87218343618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/wezenomagivuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/koribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7cacb9a27---98960905883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/weromas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116f245506ff---189375084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/8816103624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/53996853271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087681d98095---wopirelejojapomaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/epuwijerored.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_off0000e4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F0 18076 bytes
SHA-256: d6116b1ca66aa4e6dc9d155b87e0d2ebb1208d4a6f89cb3ee08352c3f7205531
font_01_sfnt_off000112db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF2 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ae9430f96ef7748236f8cdb817244c3c058473e24b91663d850b35b1b911b9f7