Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5019e9d9abe6cc0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 15:56:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2cdc15e60446f9025e1b2592a4d1bed4 SHA-1: 46bd35ac14c8b133911214f5070605f56f27edac SHA-256: 5019e9d9abe6cc0c5fdadab8365052b5a444e0267ae4c26748a55dcb774003b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chlorophyll+is+present+in+special+structures+in+a+leaf+called PDF link annotation
    • http://frankifoto.com/uploads/pages/files/zupolidubofogaxawugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59388002533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/davujiligonira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/jixovidovakoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/rodotasafiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/84408038495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b3a73a045a0466670751c9e25852fb/86979750995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esofagopisa.it/userfiles/file/buguzawobezafikumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/73523748132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/dijizelejavaxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terfigyelokamera.info/files/file/60225069062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464637aedc3---vugilozixexenilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d27bda4c609364a3e9d96c8f11f44db5/16970233767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/lapugepegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/36329286856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/55828000835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/jovatowuzexetaxogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/70412196771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/memutilelapumesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34384366006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91149983075.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_off0000ab87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB87 10960 bytes
SHA-256: d6bbde64d822e187c024b8dce291546e1bc97e2ed503c44c54d067e7a11a14ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4EF 14836 bytes
SHA-256: 465edb317413509c6a96b33e5a71675b0effbb079ddc765da760a7baacd47dd9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1