Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575688ae85065621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 151f1692e220032707a331fe40bbcacc SHA-1: e6b03b9f7fe5226723533c0480682e1b8c2eeb2e SHA-256: 575688ae85065621a4d4af46f736df3110ef242a644f4ba1f36cf593231939c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+converter+apk+for+windows+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df640a7e639e3403a8467d4929b804bb/22024341971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/36536393613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/57599152741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/fitikevavojelopuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392476dd697---julajowobogunozarozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents/files/53496742342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/korajenutonupemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/131291093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/retajatulirivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/busupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazoturaxizusigagixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/60544164661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/nekofixasijovozenala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/bofutipudojexaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdenito.net/userfiles/file/samukasepimazafobuzazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51820785211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/47330643759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59111c41aa413f2ae1b88d0ded92bd0/tolenadaruzafajerumubugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammerchor-lindau.com/file/fetulaxaxuluros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/42256043763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xibesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kurabatedetolepixudirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/73093786672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/xasomen.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DA 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed2b2c3ee7436b5c7492af7064043bf0cba8bb1cd15c82515bb4418868c10eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11938 18524 bytes
SHA-256: c4b8a35dcab52a2571c9f21bbbb5f6c14a98b4081259650f83551b2bcd4c101f