Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d152bd40a497eac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:13:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3f82b550153c090fdcfd69b8f7b8127b SHA-1: c9144b73bba7d8c71479882457bacce7cf750853 SHA-256: 5d152bd40a497eace9253aed51186b637e31c74c5e93055ac3d83e8a2ee8a6d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URI heuristics and the nature of the URLs suggest the PDF is used as a lure to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comma+to+list PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44326110094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2f3caeb4c---namabizabazixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/40773344258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/wuvusututumudapine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/79627808229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blpp7c58mh8efamha8gjb98eq4/fagovipulirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76344412985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/35749882812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9636b8656---kelaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b6bea17195b53717f7f893b6ebecbf/pawemazize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/51260591795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/048f6d0850c70d2886874f2877b8986f/41664841487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641efeb254ba4f6eefe6ec97f34eeaa1/renat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/37625910488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/15789388024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eec84e8c8---62405288377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38e995b406bc7da68588713d05d84f14/48784932039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee2f5b169e04b1bbd1100ead3af5354/badezikegurasireluruwagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5c1e06fa8---lebapejataxojoxawuvinelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/7142577109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/6482514711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/4303644761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-reunion.com/clients/8/86/86f5f051d314e00f57792b8428d7085d/File/24418838172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7r7mcm2mrpca9kc4nksls9p03/puvexagise.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_off0000b47e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB47E 15848 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa5bd2ce03bb1ef814072cfe733fd84a2e0cd14d7b43b3756b31fa72c601902
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50A 9964 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7ead7d75019074cfab201497516e35afc781a04c70fa9edea97330d6d3a4ef