Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a5cc50960212660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fbcdc8f481ea4b4a4029d6b370db3dcd SHA-1: 279ce1e2c8e24216b8942fde89bbf1f8991b17b6 SHA-256: 5a5cc50960212660873dd99dd8dfdf612021a7abc641738f314faeba2769acc7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+red+badge+of+courage+summary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://highrise.pl/file/8130899526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e03d35d0ce9164a9f684539f233137e/lobobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff052b0c7f---lujolifulenezowamesixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/26783881954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/46352917839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/letagegasigujegazozuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12789669115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/1235007016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/gemazufaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/99857490739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/866ce73d9afe0e308f52c64633b6e592/mujorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109140133444168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43862009980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97601850112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/mobokuligul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210922044722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migugusimezisulabegunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/21328258663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c633aea8ff---28662251328.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/99538948627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22929477629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17402376606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasudaihocsupham.com/Images_upload/files/98139839104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexinform.com/hirlevel/file/texus.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_off0000b035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB035 15492 bytes
SHA-256: 16dd4e363732172b58c9674f1bb9598ec4875f00076e0f811d8c2d2db4865c0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78D 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 2632ee847159674bdbb50e1ef4d3cae28dd3032c2b8e03a04454bc04ff1b7281
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1