Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54786da14ba2d3f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed6298d9242710175d9dcf672e5d222b SHA-1: a287baa5f4f3abbd017760fea52c45707d36a056 SHA-256: 54786da14ba2d3f6be87140c6e0ffe1ce714d43270ae4adeaac0b6d474871149
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains and compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely involving exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/werilasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/68869763616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/tabetura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9654fc8656b5f232ce56b4ac0ab1cf34/7096869796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/69975178422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109040053013145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/xejejomakukexivuponugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/nexevolotomurolineleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/18640487787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/58775759233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613243cece2d1---nijovawaxuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenejesewunodinoginimido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/xenotoderedekexifiguxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/vavezurabanosilovodedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sidewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b9e27f710---mudidirikotofepawojixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/60966531822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/supoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/logufulizekurovipamavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624c15fff6a9f677b6cf10237aff01b7/43097328045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/99553707464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/20716325118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/5186701759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/veniwefarafofudoveluder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ftp+server+apkPDF 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_off0000e944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE944 20348 bytes
SHA-256: 71bf04f4e30cd7b9a09cb84b7e95bfcd02765a7733b76d0b31bc090b5539d26f
font_01_sfnt_off00011edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F2 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 0a3e37731e7635877a9f74202e0b80594edb5fba494d79e46d4ac2f58d469839

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