Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54c39efa0d3308e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 22:08:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c54928a23a0aa5736e01ca993687bc04 SHA-1: 7ee187239f39608222b8570d85b1f5a7d19a2472 SHA-256: 54c39efa0d3308e83a19ca08367dda4fef987f29282cd689c78650399e361f7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple URLs hosted on potentially compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://tjtvina.com/Upload/files/77222982412.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/7033066838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/vizegurukobobajikexinujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bourgogne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15124495945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamdaykem.vn/Images_upload/files/titevajidixomomudiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/ranenemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfnhsw.com/upload/files/menafozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/29555478630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/zegusikijomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/vudexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/38592736387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/60546841754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costarica4d.com/contents/files/6426641070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/76177620356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pboe2l9ovftfl8m8pbg1hajf10/27160642093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxauto.ru/userfiles/file/wamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147172fd1c3d---14970480400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33aacef48d09c78030ee7d6a28ce2a62/87381224642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///bimoburakide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/52159822054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/030029569153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/matarurulekopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/27405556716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/remib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=language+toolkit+3+answersPDF 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_off0000af88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF88 15788 bytes
SHA-256: 6a9871b0ca0f0487c285a0620353bf6b80f651787d34ad332b4b49b0a2613ae1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BB 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7f573ee3a31af93979e030b38e4a27982060fb412b39def277855f4d34cc34
font_02_sfnt_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1