Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad71e9dd17cf913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:29:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: be0059baa676617761f403d4038fcb63 SHA-1: 2999862cf9117753b05dbeda1c6b929a0786ce46 SHA-256: 5ad71e9dd17cf9139c7c37218e27bef2158b4c38404dfe021801566735e3a370
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=text+picture+apps+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/90465856286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/xixavafitokisuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/dirusokagujijekoribigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/20130558426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodigezifofuxufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribirumoxoketete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1631260819/file/75847049540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/30032204121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/mijomomovuwitulubuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33672449336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/5454664155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/24149774310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/74584901300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4567054d5da7d3d367d6e1b8a8b75e5e/41034219983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/20238321471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/robelorekedamaxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/23383514637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingclubalbinia.eu/userfiles/files/55836123070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613509696667f---50823588713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otlgbo0gsqmu4s42rcbipr8lk7/dalemebezixanakevudoweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/tazezumuzatopusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopediedelft.eu/files/24084997195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pabadozapofugupese.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_off0000f1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C1 10732 bytes
SHA-256: f9e2be0c89474f1787fed5230d35ccc9404b828ad0ac06657f492c6ada079236
font_02_sfnt_off00012292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12292 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8b42bc5f69c8c854d86cc0221544983909bd6838550e3c180744f48bc83c8a