Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5431e2e72ee5140c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 08:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bfdd3929cce1d034f6a6daddc2e170e8 SHA-1: 7133e7d2ed49bc08cd30f78f24d9073bb35ce2ae SHA-256: 5431e2e72ee5140c15188de293396154079b3cf59cb727c9b7aedf20488b0b7d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=security+threats+in+cloud+computing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/86649498614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bipaf.org/2009_home/upload/editor/file/35438982612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrastorg.com/userfiles/file/32103979082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/54574287674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/56141157212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/gebepadujare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314b5d2f5d3---80563480192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/66668794609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66405865962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwowupada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7a061254f---fumisapevazumotuzamejeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/wuzabifumotove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/bilewemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/xesatojiparerepuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdejqtt6erlirhk0p8lov6ke1b/nawakega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/21802751001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafiestadelmoto.cz/files/file/47685749915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinnethk.com/userfiles/file/toroluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/61806809430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60094671144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96550289359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74c9b410386ecac346f6f92abc6c263f/59589802709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/20205433959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/89534982661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/kelonafemudisomixemefoje.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_off0000b0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CC 15412 bytes
SHA-256: d68c90c5a94d0cc63ffc2eff0d4a932f2722f9e7df9852f5c7d2c6c593bb9c36
font_01_sfnt_off0000d80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80F 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 18facaf1ae98b94fbc45567879dce5965ea6fa1ed473e112cac90fddf8c4fc26
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1