Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5167e49c937eea21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:47:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 824128e4dee20cdd32f21ac7fec8d106 SHA-1: 86bd20f73dfc4f9be137897fcd0ce21d7c3c94a2 SHA-256: 5167e49c937eea215994706d6e4882660f6bbe29e154c04b8d6d63e1f1bbdedd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+and+antonyms+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajezupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ri0qnm41k84er85d6f90cq5d/36723327125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/57525040493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/doxowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sotasegizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9mpcggo29eo921ag6ifpa0no9/84684818902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/048b75f938841e75a9f28f0f67e6128d/mupopakilazujiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b3e767fb9---dovejobuxenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/78747097959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ioev402ppgrcq481p93vjros77/72101651822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v75gbf95n7p6a43gdddf5i9r2s/50380932191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/46244133258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosbaffo.com/userfiles/files/67245052536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/63241833920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/16829365162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/78353540011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/raklka5o2rgnkpo12a950ecca7/vimotabarakupidexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/wikobefifezemelagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bb58704db---jorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b562fd8aa53fc17cb3ef7f30930b231/96926770584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a395210de9e---18275981791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0031498b0f---31938015758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/21202675936.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_off0000d7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DC 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 954c0abf73327ea8a83c7040f2707a6ab2f918774e5e640eab009702bc33ffb6
font_01_sfnt_off0001059c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059C 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 574efd3b71c64de5709d7bfe316130786c0ab0d144172b5e61cb60255df6a166
font_02_sfnt_off00011e83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1