Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54d5038d3f183d4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:02:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9996a9afe17268fab36552725d59c50c SHA-1: 02d88fea225eb4d443f8bf9f80a3f2c93fb3b5c3 SHA-256: 54d5038d3f183d4ad135107f45652f5765866a2f2feac8da4e449b1cb4f7cdb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. Heuristics indicate a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/88894127213.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.buildonhope.org/file/32273259341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/pemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/12417610101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/22073725769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskypohar.cz/upload/file/vavenore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/sivudagotapifexuzatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrekruit.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/sizemitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392872838a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/90124949480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/mewabokazobukatotutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/kopipevaxutosejalalexibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140053c6cfec---3736853685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/91985733676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagikumidazuxutunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazazokavemoletalananitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_38C62DA35069D6A8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/ronufolivoputit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvoiiranytu.hu/blog/file/23513532204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/xowiwinuruwadaluwilidewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d66e9bf11---19617053964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/mafafapozedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/44619771046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/6053651791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/lizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8659082016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defogilaralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=galaxy+cutest+animals+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d12a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12A 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf76321f525c345ad3063b1a97480ad77037b6389fd56a75800eeaca26a9580
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA50 19048 bytes
SHA-256: a7eb29b884ca3be5ca4a68f83085e6ff63e08de211b19d4fef34fb405f6b80ad
font_02_sfnt_off00011b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1