Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54dae9878aad679f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fe1ab957553822c1be3599b0d7331073 SHA-1: 203e328cf1cc3a8ad9c70ae27e9eca965497138a SHA-256: 54dae9878aad679f9b5bab76698aabc4fe926f6b75cec08dfae7a8dec4fbfae6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dua+for+mayyith+in+malayalam
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beca366c11988fa9ca3f5c3f46f5f0cf/wogatevudo.pdf
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/11081087336.pdf
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/42906377352.pdf
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35040122929.pdf
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/fixezezevejiwoxebutu.pdf
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/gekotireni.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141da35289be---silesifusonobusun.pdf
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/wifimafalatuwex.pdf
    • https://cheesykeju.com/contents/files/68580652897.pdf
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/lilavenoguwefil.pdf
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufojopewakadorazofet.pdf
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_67A59D29D0EC0D39.pdf
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/vidom.pdf
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baguvazezawebukuxudowofos.pdf
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/torotazixuxoponuvepa.pdf
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109140406033891.pdf
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/muwifuxozifejiz.pdf
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/77413290654.pdf
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25600656796.pdf
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/wonumad.pdf
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/94716480748.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323969017a0---divekagivid.pdf
    • http://emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31027861561.pdf
    • http://fuguchair.com/upfolder/e/files/20210908053433.pdf
    • 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_off0000d38d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba4.bin
0873fab537f3fb0c9caf0a75a309b28e39a76118e3807f73be14c5ec9ab39442
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA4 10392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000102ee.bin
5e817c8d63098095574bc83d2841a143ea88827d62784b7b20046c18d17e8f9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EE 21004 bytes