Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5323690d8a0d9afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b1b1491674a76bde7efe217cc55d6ae3 SHA-1: 57ae2b6af0bb7a609af6d691f8ad4391137798d7 SHA-256: 5323690d8a0d9afea49b3a552a156d882a3e564343aa6d0161c6d23ea3d6b7ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pirate+live+tv+streaming+sites PDF link annotation
    • https://mbbs.hr/files/14275503056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovikaxifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/99018612169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/mubuxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/29206743974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5461348353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/divor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/98159397130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/likawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_C1FC87CB8437A61E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/5682382320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/zunufoxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigerseedindia.com/uploads/xaruzizusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/5157313457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7473eb51cf0f121541dcb04764f3fc2f/37628485318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/3023226470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/kemoziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongkhomica.com/upload/files/moxosijobopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents/files/bivepuzatapode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130695cb90e1---9091179803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b925a5a5e---21868176724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/76330079706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/ziwexomidojotowetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradegateindia.com/userfiles/file/70181718437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/4002848312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/dovogaxomukuseminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agcontraincendios.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegirijasoxutovomuzezet.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_off0000f311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF311 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 9b7f9db37b42c4d0ddf35b6ae5cecd029a22f37319888b98e120982ed20bff13
font_01_sfnt_off00011fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD3 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 95b9bf12d7035b2fb458a1ad7155665c3a35aef0cbdc5a532a8d92fb47770587
font_02_sfnt_off0001375d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1