Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5486a76d233e1ecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0f5cb3eb217a3730228447eebbb5d089 SHA-1: 438d40acaf4ce9e30db0f4d83038689171cf473e SHA-256: 5486a76d233e1ecd224879e664054f976a80ebf9640599cfce029091d899fd7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or SEO-based malicious redirection campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://proficlim.ru/public/userfiles/file/88492073336.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///99216017801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f807e3cfc5---16385435331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukuxesubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/kinukapegukela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/mofowuvani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firofevezomezibupewazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/3057945996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/91034743418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partetesal.ir/data/file/fudatapibaluzufawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/21772583443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfast.ru/userfiles/file/romadiketikuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xuxumaxemesasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/mipulasujezasedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenmodels.ru/uploads/files/27963748789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nizewodidufunituweraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138832c3c501---lezaxalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/kajefakerugekure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d7b174ca7---7773011123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/zarakavivirojekives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sreekanakananda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27703894873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=top+5+best+mobile+company+in+indiaPDF 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_off0000b530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB530 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD47 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 645071a663e3c8e9dcddd676df9ec0124a15aa17a83584476e13807eb4dd3563
font_02_sfnt_off0000e666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE666 16332 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa6da923d5e7f0e96d191df9da34e4efd08e9d208becc72c989fe30655e9029