Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ac33601e7e9abe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 20:02:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 20d831d460e1cecb942e7fe3d23cdba2 SHA-1: b31d0f7c25ffd3f5b30985c0e372d87035b395c5 SHA-256: 5ac33601e7e9abe0e2cced5820abbefc7f7ccdfdbea6cc3a751263cf5e148ab2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bigg+boss+7+all+episodes PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/23994808063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/91662107144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/29295966241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/35104379795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/guzaluxogemiravozilepilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/funis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18102915664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veriziliwoxireki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15228006904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonofazonoxumaguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///kiviviwifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/95037962986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47784eeb4373986f6f870c4b46d82f38/wapanexozuxuluteraxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/51984543578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccedad587f95a5007eab8649ee851d6e/49035530980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_8E9BB66621953F14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/65055439763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinacafe-dalat.com/Images_upload/files/29001122231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/65246625601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109011759368260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6504dacdbdccb27c6cbe166ab4a4c8f2/kemirejojanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e2eed2ead---gogapejatadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/jirevasunevedigekedu.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_off0000b250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB250 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 1f88160ed132e72eef176f76977aa504e938554db702b15510badf3792a84626
font_01_sfnt_off0000dccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E6 10508 bytes
SHA-256: fb541177fe515df974e73584ff34fc162c55e87428fe8ccc283857ca36c486bf