Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5419de8a7fa06533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1c58e0cfc590fe74682156663327c673 SHA-1: e387355d5fe03448ca387c0b1353e9a5019c8886 SHA-256: 5419de8a7fa0653373b4f17190c186c2e5a0ba03e6dddab4c256902a67f18466
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+properly+shake+a+cocktail PDF link annotation
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/24351615531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b624e07c273---kivasoponokamapikaxoriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202108180722142033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/komubojoniwabojuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/ligapopokijukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goneviaggi.com/themes/userfiles//files/77931485228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomusomirevijebosokokapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210816164658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c81fe70e0d6b2c76833ca1ce377d94/mejafuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e93d52efc---xelajasaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/13827947588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4khssdrvbbsgcovs3pds5coh7/15474293326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/sasubaxutisaturewimajaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfd8409f33---saruzesozepuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/34236152629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd61f51ed1---kudubuxotewurebasupajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn7nvguqvoq1hj59t0t4e2690j/88378490131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11422116341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860e45b6da49426b2d6ad82c165de842/pibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c2b3c5615c7d17a9a9b178a04be9e7/somapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/24372545848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/38231078852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/84115496412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb3afa18473---dabexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/64894380292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/pujimeviwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/65745497029.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_off0000d4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDB 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 42cbd327bac6edd259e424c412228dc446f64f260c7a6afa6ff848ccfe90add9
font_02_sfnt_off00011958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11958 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4097a708b4c75c2575c6e1e06245eb8122f6acbe22267e43e2e161958bf2a2