Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0572e77bd0ffb909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0659fd1193e1551cd440154a9dcbe41b SHA-1: ba7c6fc7517ca2947ab3430bd8e78ec77a0603bc SHA-256: 0572e77bd0ffb909d917434d2fde4f8523be4ba7492ec5cfc174927176fbe8de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure, potentially delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+backup+application+data PDF link annotation
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021090501573370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minisadik-margaritka.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/rijakaligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letofokudeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/74216056455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/42224584450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/pekane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/fuvarikojunupelagiwipumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/46624444214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/63257255657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/53985492683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f22d91be99f68a812f72b8588d165ec/vegifetitimadexujunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/57387605828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/7757202160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veslovani-vsb.cz/soubory/file/80016976385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67521205670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410f23e4b8c---kinodalodaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351349a08ff---satulofutatuvowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/gelaxoxajuxovemufepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents/files/39526234512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdde8bf7f8b0550228c19c42b0967834/momorevebinejudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/rotugorigawozem.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_off0000d948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 05eeb79d6edd5567f3d523137183df8e1643082d88e66102c27325e849997efc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF119 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 077cb9b8838429c001965234287852b85d037d5c5afa413289493ff4171cf682
font_02_sfnt_off00011cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1