Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2754b62dfd3fdec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:10:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 618b332b3918ba2de69cfac0edf3d065 SHA-1: 53197ea8038291887b14b7c5b9d9b742777a9967 SHA-256: 2754b62dfd3fdec820aa3e71a9708a9ec2f54b8b2298c964a7f2e1ffdbc6a364
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=encefalitis+viral+en+pediatria+pdf+2014 PDF link annotation
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87400942621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/54007325864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613602412d473---pubebasulofiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cellesekorea.com/ckupload/files/65821267754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redigonda.it/userfiles/files/38441032235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/zigigipumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/63660428757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/zixopuzuvifutuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/lizebevogumoxufozufinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/99745729993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/zivekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/88872612204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/95568549242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130df0112f26---metiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/najeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/kupizetanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/tutiruwatopefomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f69e1bca9---sadakivigixesepusofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/10254403046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/bawojosusuzebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvanova.ru/sites/default/files/15292342258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/gadazinipopibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/gunixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/matisewisumuzubom.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_off0000e6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B5 18592 bytes
SHA-256: b52b26e8e9983757c52c7873c435e078f9b2a546aa4322ee27552665523084c9
font_01_sfnt_off000117af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AF 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ef1eee7104f14d83bd357e5de0f9c136d859b4b378c8905b647cfb633d524b5c
font_02_sfnt_off00013130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1