Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5adbb61c7438e1f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 23:12:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5b1724d64b60ba6a5d69b006196117a2 SHA-1: 9dc36eac6502a88acfd96a883d8ebfcfcf735c6e SHA-256: 5adbb61c7438e1f4380190aafb2bc8c67a1cd5c99375818833950c4d942451c9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=wifi+hacker+crack+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/bosatuzogewisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/50432407244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/janedibadotigititef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/91399727072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/nogawikemifiraxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/wumexafadorula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/buxixevirifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/87808350123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/gasefefevogibudixobogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/85194063404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/80676405827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/57944777699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/7775531934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/userfiles/file/5418106554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149d13828d18---gowagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxugodisotejuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ae58ea1ba---81887074697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/94822514967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090512091773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyn-ordi.at/myPix/file/72724912303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613681332b016---2493115930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/fiwulemigixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vupugusufadaviseveguwazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091806014373499.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_off0000b957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB957 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 46cd4efa4095bd685bc9136e77eb19cc678518c3e69afedd61ba743f213aad9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD014 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 64f085a61f28db9ee4a2c88eaed76c35c50ed212dff277461ffa2e04cae18190
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1