Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5649f836d3e54866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-26 00:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5c5185abd411e4126f88f2c220a32adf SHA-1: 33361f06ae4fad3ea0fd2fb60953994b9ba65667 SHA-256: 5649f836d3e54866319dcc2af372755712374df25bec42f04b127f4541c10749
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a spearphishing attachment, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=use+for+phosphorus PDF link annotation
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116292343eb135c32a2b55803febd32a/14501207775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cmqm6bn5t3s8os742t04v83k6/fojinebinidulesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2fplfja2j8tjc1r8uoibbtvcc/83021389730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b040907c82b---lotidisirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/wuzafolaxipabavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhmoits48r530tqdv2nsp5oeb2/sibamurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/94527780764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da340dc1fc---17982755364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/vimuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ebfdd1fb9---pegusufulapogufupujeseviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c971875c6d---83899271240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e88837567---46385650342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/lomavopekexukuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775c4108a27---66323919334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/90410783446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3f5a2117a---xidilawonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5da72e8bd---78324508852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755d29d592f---18071164800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqerjjlco0gu1h9iassvmke5n7/bumabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/68700762322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1305ebb90ca8b5f511e952ac188449b/dadasomesekege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/juxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a168c45d3eb---18735529463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/231301749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00012448.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12448 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 80efcc643d4af4ed339c954f95d7b5a12947786be87ad37cdde422974b6e9630
font_00_sfnt_off0000e26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26F 16736 bytes
SHA-256: e1189516142cdad3788941049679420d7fdf1aaa9db73788fe427e9c58f70c21
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC4 10060 bytes
SHA-256: ae0265990f6a9c02164bbd711c5fe3e0f6f09ad3a457c375a061a976e12cdcb6
font_03_sfnt_off00013f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1