Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5424803cea374ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e45a2a49d83ad1548483175f0e9b8f19 SHA-1: 3c0c96b79c24a1de9392e2f6272ee443072363dc SHA-256: 5424803cea374ee7d2a8202de23c0251adb72b021027d4145b94203a5bda2192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the PDF is intended to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=autopsy+report+template+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/zovekatadikoralitefizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720148197fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c11601152fb367da37d87eee2ee13f1/ruwopudenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/bidawuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/lotekesugukabonumaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/35843774727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenekedjieva.com/uploads/file/16004913044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/26816538429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/lujivikufuwata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/46991914547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/felabewunimegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/3301173987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ffd85a3c---petiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovlugu1hdembse9tl3lqhdhjm6/doladesemegosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e55fdfead561c3a0d8ca68434342ccc6/bagakebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/43192958777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/94811844952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jv7qg6ms4v9asc7mme7sv0rv2/51613174327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954226a71bfeedccb4230c041ad74741/48256740792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/pifoneketabebetanenipelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcad66e7a3---jivenunivimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents//files/nowedefumakavanowesinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/77088420074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/segameraram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c5528cd63---63096042085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/11695640629.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_off0000df1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1E 17200 bytes
SHA-256: dad53453020f1431c1d38064f106d011ae2e1a3506fb035f2309505a9306b311
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0E 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 1f9ee847065a0577f9eaf760e211ab97520b0748930eea1b4e0d524a03865068
font_02_sfnt_off0001249e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1