Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a5452b546c40579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4866e44dc8ad2863d32a512c7a5afc41 SHA-1: 5ea2495ded1a8aef092abb724576c5eb3288f98c SHA-256: 2a5452b546c40579e4a611e0f76ba5dfe3f3ed926664d04f4e9c107ccc3f799c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains or compromised CMS upload storage, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+kingsman+secret+service+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://thebottombillion.com/business_school/uploads/file/fudivuwalobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/tawikunosanike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/jezivude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/febinelivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waelfawzy.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/wazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/5461897128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotografski-studio.kost.si/userfiles/file/5255596330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///35467221790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/malena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/91033343004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cc17df7763c15878d7fc3f312dc56c/wogirufugumepijasuwabotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yves-segers.be/userfiles/files/zelojuvevizuzasumogewajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431a188ea7f---61115590076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/84500641211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/wizemifazofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.org/SapmaUserfiles/file/xidezufikagozolutusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/18265466720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/49885990938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/gezujuwosarivoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr6po2crmkqs9cnnsbqgpflt31/xujeniwagefogumipuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/54646104465.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_off0000b4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4ED 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 818a291e0957ef116f88b71133a3d067da9ac10ac8c737c64f7acaf9d9be49be
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD17 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 4721b9e7edc5550cc69ccd3095e4c032c5a7bfd3765474652faf2c1465192143
font_02_sfnt_off0000f82e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1