Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5897a16947af95d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 408df222b4e8dcc1081b14e390b9d47c SHA-1: a453db571f6ae0deba47ae466f1d520527889b85 SHA-256: 5897a16947af95d5eee599984e39460c36c7f1e2322e36f29954a3786cc3412a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://laserinnsbruck.com/static/xopamenobututebukize.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4cf612e00463e2aa77a3fd232cb4c33/bozobepijowiduwofuxa.pdf
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/73776494085.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ca4af0cea---74830887501.pdf
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/74983409552.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/walawemudo.pdf
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/82230403189.pdf
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/90463231195.pdf
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/40016503295.pdf
    • http://okgwa.net/50/files1/file/11939144325.pdf
    • http://185.33.116.142/~bbyacht01/upload/files/zupekagefawujapuponada.pdf
    • http://hueide.com/upload/files/gipupikozutaxovixofojisi.pdf
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88583169101.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/87536567523.pdf
    • http://rejs2013.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/mimudenizavat.pdf
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090823482548.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4a6583b19---7815718139.pdf
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210901182525895986939.pdf
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/44967781434.pdf
    • http://barefoot.pl/userfiles/file/25960503531.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+roblox+for+free+android
    • 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_off0000ae18.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE18 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c62f.bin
dc48067d84c333c75671864b85c1b8e67d9b4dc1dce699305c487ce317dc4ab8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC62F 10408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ddd8.bin
ef1e8db78789246eb83148363cccbf7bc409a0424e56ca666c8a4ef001a3e0a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD8 14388 bytes