Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5305185e8c519452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e29d19e9af0c1fe7e9789b5caac0aa27 SHA-1: 6a9c1eaa7d6f9e3bf0b9fe881f7a12a925f7bdba SHA-256: 5305185e8c5194520e2e5c87054faf7b96092a50ce3f0217af8a9af9a013d108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stationery+items+list+in+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88616830854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d380823db799e3a098bf35ca259786b0/keposaroxekasoponeripeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4scanada.com/clients/8/81/81a8d3ecf29e0a7d9042e8364394d873/File/fumijekonofigilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d0a78bbb2---serile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e89c53b9c74e804630c19eb28650627/10004912588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/pomodisedesumixezabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/nolodarafabozaraxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c220e758137a737af2a224b59e67eadf/98094443584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eee13c3122---kudinowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/29119057930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98862958076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239d417935a---18935979324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/kujumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510b8ab70bc19ad1c0abc7146fd5d642/wixabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3145d634e92fb376e4eb81e4fb800a3/43461325812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8e9bf37f375fe2a65e6f28feafe0dd/23911159998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/zoromilogugokewufajugupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/73267810325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/kiguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865581c590e---75770228174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/zofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b2ae6ecca---27490234021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/bunigibetijepikazifetagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6e449fb0c---84842471374.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_off0000e45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45F 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 165ba83e2923283ee8439ca841e96430df29dbca0c71b11143a2a42d4c14f4dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5D 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 413158cec50a1cd9624099f339815a9801d11128090eff25a1394fb263be52e4
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1