Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54762d41f390e59b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 03:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1f0826f7522d473c8c29362032153a0f SHA-1: d9e92ccdb3cee762cf2cdf2fa559a01d3f275967 SHA-256: 54762d41f390e59bc90032dda78bf481694a9cd428e8e901989d8d7c5a5cfc94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Notably, some links point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://digireg.gr/upload/ratuwanonopemene.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/50368337386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210607082454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggv9b5ht3ev95c7enjgebr7bfv/jirajilotibiguvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--szabowski-tub.pl/userfiles/file/pisatizemogubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607203ae5e75a---nezewurotare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcbb6958ba---goroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/35743191369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/rebadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608497ad1df6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/lapijerevemuzovaxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/mojojame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c1d3a5799f4bd451d3a8efc0e33342/49018245718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh7elo6gnci556i989tvsim2fm/xefodekibasarowakibadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10779894312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5215148440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/fowiwuxuwakekunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/debcc02d934b5c00ae579b11adda64ce/kufanupitorezedadinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff66600e3gui65paemgu2d2960/mujinesatoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333eeb5d3d8240d95dc7c94b3d80749d/lapukiteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3b204378b---56671218312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botelebeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/51850530496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/gejusifufosotazumefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+pokemon+tcg+online+on+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EA 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 3f2bd09b0795dcbdff97974c124264b51abcda41cb443c02eae96c3bb411105c
font_01_sfnt_off00010d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001253e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253E 17288 bytes
SHA-256: be4fcaf01e20f4b9b687d58cca87a637a2728da2b51077aeec8e76510d7be858