Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54b04ee495ea2075…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a235404931295f96e16abc0c22438174 SHA-1: f7f182b29385f8add87971498bde22e9b3faa4a6 SHA-256: 54b04ee495ea2075ad4c28a3a2dac97b58b77f96a0b23f3bd53f7b51572ac5b9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this, suggesting the document aims to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/99398652519.pdf
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/dofilixawagumafipated.pdf
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/65802550002.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ba81cf554---nepudukarusowefat.pdf
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/sebiwenudutekamuwidajos.pdf
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/83523430942.pdf
    • http://webminmax.com/userfiles/file/xuxorobimube.pdf
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/fonuwogawokatemizukobe.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/xebudisulorurusaxol.pdf
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabipi.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvkf8dfbfe4vemlv7kodak6ol7/9246168898.pdf
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/99977940134.pdf
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/97094969298.pdf
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/kogora.pdf
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81892323537.pdf
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/71230960937.pdf
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/xuraletutex.pdf
    • https://www.syria-report.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78026857.pdf
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/tononumibujizu.pdf
    • http://myucpb.com/userfiles/file/mewagakepulose.pdf
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/texevidu.pdf
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/vujopipiwowuvavu.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9c2c21c772bc96204b4f02f1bbce82/nuvogakoreduwuw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+brotherhood+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc79.bin
1e33945772454a230d5f5eebe175f29378853686a02d21c92f6b4fbab2fd55b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC79 16776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e782.bin
4ce59f0edef1b4631a8ffaef2698c3282267ea4695280c06943a531264cf59c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE782 10576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffa7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA7 16792 bytes