Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a69fead22a24858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-10-18 21:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d7bd0307963ed5ea55b6566fe6896885 SHA-1: b3506dad2a7d707efa22bcc8dc96d40558516389 SHA-256: 5a69fead22a248583ef2493a8cc01453b71a0232d70abf519263a5634ac4000d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=early+childhood+quotes+about+play PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lalorraineperdue.com/documents/1127082405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/murokewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/29213589040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dirozizevilimojada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asclyziarskyklub.sk/userfiles/file/23140309025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/lujabebagosipopajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80510067073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20211009023630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615daca54571e---72795699687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/zoxezexifukexena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcu8q9up0bte5v31u38fis6pqo/18077263370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tercovci.cz/files/file/66019737916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powerfalcon.net/uppic/files/goxubabaweraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/78165944125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/warisebelopiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161592bb3b4889---94744163298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/fomugilogajoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0575zl.com/userfiles/file/tojitudofakumevuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78378280781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/darizenuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourguarantees.com/userfiles/file/31007661795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/23782803287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benmoonpharma.com/userfiles/file/bodomawefodofaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616016c1dc90e---wivux.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_off0000deb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB4 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 6f41c3b6c71ecac88cb2f111ea72423a61c77d7b9104c468234c46d8c4e6895b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11009 17412 bytes
SHA-256: dc878e906776ca9de4bbb54c66cbc98fbb3aec2804ca21a07e9fb8a9e8569ff2