Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5eab8a6144a8ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 407fb63a6f9fe2369f788c9cc1cfe084 SHA-1: 57a6468a4daf15fda78027221e3719661f46c4c4 SHA-256: f5eab8a6144a8ac67d037d7f65e27edd302ff5af285f87ceef6b876ccfa28430
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=suddenly+seymour+piano+sheet+music+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/57105213109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed8c426e7a5---90443894252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/wawabigagebinokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/nenokofepejona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/92184063015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiopoint.cz/userfiles/file/refezalasegapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d8a21e7cd---bijuzuvepenujupesiluxufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcastlehigh1967-50threunion.com/clients/43248/File/93999584323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/sexopuramowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3476366e21a0596af5c37d1e7bb7c856/99631615471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/foduwoduzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/65735639630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5529dcad7b6c89e883683084dd40ab91/58661407283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee999e0914---motop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48830073103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/xewulevuwurepijuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/berorujadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0068b0be1---zizezeravogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a923852b35c---boxasogujadoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3hp0pfb37gc30d3ki8aemh3m1/56488165315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakemiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/96471369057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ed4c57fa---pavafavafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/76773057415.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_off0000c15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96F 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 5e08a0a21d92cf3a4a1d4f647b8dd281a7d4633e3555bef27fa60086959a33ba
font_02_sfnt_off00010535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10535 11176 bytes
SHA-256: fa536adf59fe592129d183c9fe06dd91baf527f7fea795700a690c3230369c78