Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1521ba3255a8b02a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-20 07:41:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 695437c032a5eab6d61db50defacfec3 SHA-1: 5e6bff7f64ca13a44d4b9b85dcf766164fc8815d SHA-256: 1521ba3255a8b02a31baa1db101193edc51e11e1afb70e0d36ad0ef23864c5b6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a malformed exploit stream and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains references to 'five nights at freddy's download sister location', likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=five+nights+at+freddy%2527s+download+sister+location PDF link annotation
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/nevigizumemenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01f1c977ccf44b152d8ba19a887e7bf/65697930744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/22804903696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7d449ca8---59183451312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/kadamazekofatarakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f510bd176b82156c0f6cc6f594f1bb83/79295600245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3dbdeb27238bb7c7c52104423692f79/vowiputefefigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4saj5pdb24q857ckleghr484kg/mixowugezufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4e4377dbb---sovagaladiganevaloluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/bufaromedavibokena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a049b9df2---9808844692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f1e0fca462d178bff1d6ce2484a408/95799316760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ca8ab09f---bizowuzebosegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/tosopinozigoxefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/lemosalowodopinupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/4002215591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 16971ba361afa70cd9ee9fa9e99cd179d95f6452428535abe7a4d6b911408395
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CE 13388 bytes
SHA-256: 56444eecbed8879e7f483bb752e69c2a5c470e1e583821a311ff7a9ef3687f39