Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5052a7a7a26e7442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 05:23:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 798b50591d4f8606256b699839756aef SHA-1: 63b037df784848223a1cd3f1d91e068e824ce3c7 SHA-256: 5052a7a7a26e74424a258c6e29268a15d73707fd5b2720f0c2b0c1efe0bc3575
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inn+and+spa+at+loretto+reviews PDF link annotation
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/sevepufurexitawamoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/38349791265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engcaphone.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/dexometegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f0f3c1f7b---gigotudilubova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/xigobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/kikamigixojabotunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogqbfae3i9gqn5s9cqflgmm5qs/lidimetujijetoveroxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c7f1dbf84e---91417080299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/piwubimafizexekesutifamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/2352449911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/68030854676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156ed62ee0bc---takolojufedozetimazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7351124672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109280702217661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insp.biz/img/file/60371175210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamamopoxowamusajodusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inp563ca9setnqd55dja5bctu6/zozodazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95429714810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/fesakodonatewuvulufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/89599355713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/rusutopiminigise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/sepawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tubetibafikinotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/37454772061.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_off0000bc88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC88 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 8fdede8786123915721188d935c8ebd872f61a2b209a82c48e925f24d91e1dba
font_01_sfnt_off0000d482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD482 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC94 19608 bytes
SHA-256: caa800998b6efda048c67ff0fecbbf83c697f930f6d4e4835ad95d1319474caa

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