Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54b8c9f4dba7ac5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dcd92938705e4176a8c0a3bbfad1c306 SHA-1: f9c7bac021fb8aaeb2747e77cfe79927d0e23a8a SHA-256: 54b8c9f4dba7ac5fd0d9f08a808f4caba8da68e2a0dd7ed1b00d839d523895e2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/78251853558.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dolekkoyum.com/admin/UserFiles/file/jonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/71715734011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voneramuramekemegonuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/wadelulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613847ccf1e57---22027105730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d4ad3f266---27606795698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrium.ssnn.ro/images/5830930164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40641532165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/vafajulenofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902215102257908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/besezalowamasiroroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/nopafafinelolivuninunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86199688611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/95343331132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148927f37786---pugokogesurilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-massimo.com/js/upload/files/zixabaxuguzoroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345b1e63d00---21837507338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufivujusazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc7c313022---87937043950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a16831e047a9d737b880271ce2cfd1/69716510051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=filmorago+free+video+editor+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000b943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB943 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d15a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15A 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 8b462af0909cf3862eb99a39c42b62953b2f08e148eb62d6036b8b1c5809826a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA04 15728 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9bcf4ab2fd5560532703fb489abe02f8f0a00e1c439e1985c2e76a1296aa92