Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5833bfd65e02c92f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 03ca942d2fbd8f42e90374b04255b4fd SHA-1: f2367b77dc94e7c1d61825c667c248f75743960c SHA-256: 5833bfd65e02c92f317bdf17dcdfaf3551b4a8cd4890d7975e33887f61b45fc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of link farms and compromised hosting indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353108caa3e---29794284459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--hy1bt45apoap01a.net/jangheung/userfiles/file/74693848975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurkhasfinance.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88065155145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/53301322524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/95244748393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/99517014808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/19470407289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/8476854229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuzupitomarobisetivemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347edb8cca1---rerusaxadofopenegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/divimeworopaxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/fubelojaxiwunusawida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88728a358499eba7b229c5bc1f984a21/garofimikasoxenenukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/fisinixumenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgn8shmtg23qql58e76rqpq5ar/fejuwomanizorulizuwawofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12764425085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/31031279215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/vuzijeloresatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/68393970028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130527fab884---zopofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/49737166278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=monopoly+like+games+androidPDF 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_off0000d9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A8 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 05173d6c8b7e2d5b0cf3dcf1bdffa7ebd255480c2d408e76e1a7821f023dd481
font_01_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 10836 bytes
SHA-256: a4da4e73502329e4f924404fb6158257b5a1e8f0a4a908e33795e5bfb3d2739e
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1