Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 115727393406432f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:49:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 542c82c9009abb87fd43c1ba483bd90d SHA-1: af80b3e5b25829ebd72ffe3c1319594893bb3276 SHA-256: 115727393406432f2d60478e73c93f2f25ec711e6c0ed1d797eacba6a7040edb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/xatem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/033fad152fe42d6e444ba16eab2b152b/wesedovidukawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufudodibubekisepuxugiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2435ca0eda3031302be35d4d579f89/6999448166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917134724215408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614448cc11275---ganipolojadowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/turorupebetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/17313157840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/kejevugugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631261336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a9df613913752436e3d71862a2c045/22537754818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31336481703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/renelezorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/xorozixubexibebeluxojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613112bf2c0f2---4472159540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/fakipugitiwabebikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learningsolution.ca/userfiles/files/91638577321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccaosborne.com/uploads/mudakifomulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/topirobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/33273475322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/sopeverudotogigunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiisushi.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/tumagunuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51377756360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39185023425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/27168383223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=11th+bio+maths+bookPDF 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_off0000d658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD658 10180 bytes
SHA-256: f8c9596c68b9ea951af5493d510d7a36211a83c4cc9a63889b8db0b59a7a4440
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED29 17180 bytes
SHA-256: fcdec6ea00cba3ffb6bfa4070279c5c1f6cc89785a50a7cabecddf5b4f37a359
font_02_sfnt_off000119af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1