Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d2416b83445c218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 074c011747ba010b22664de5593f04c2 SHA-1: 60d44f45aa7dd85059bdd0473ffca46533f22158 SHA-256: 5d2416b83445c218a883be603d6d5d5efcfee537012177357959084391596314
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's structure and embedded links point towards a tactic of luring users to compromised or disposable hosting sites.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+that+start+with+an+s PDF link annotation
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/kejewazatuzeruxugetisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/semane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714c9039ca4b812f8e63b66158299f3a/mibulinikemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/karaxewutuvakovupadudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a33338c001b72931a572f0430d2e37a8/55669235435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aeaca1011b---gapanunaxadewamorefugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ar8h1dqg3ap2c4nm15h2saik9/97292038009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08404a2ef15134b3f6237d4ac1960e6/wuxerejugelipirovujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastmoorclassof1970.com/clients/4/43/4343e427eb1b0a0668350338a4d6b623/File/wolenabidabibiligun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/233ab94fbbd58ff5078747a03bb64fd3/53400291194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/38120598128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1231543eebd7a8e3ccaf8033400df2a9/19733899028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/98148620795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d208ebc578e---wakokadevaxovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b256fa02f21---58515862617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b70864e8ad---kamomifinufupanosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac05e44823b---pelomivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/detofesafewakifiwifoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/sidigamesemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d7fae6b2052e2b08b9b5d70632cf595/73293716714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d9963720a9a3ffc054375915caf310/pawasubaxuforuluzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/foxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/pikavapiwobubaxexaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/bojuzumelejivetuxuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cada3f97f0248fa0506432804adc357c/liwazosukik.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_off0000e406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE406 15492 bytes
SHA-256: 93a6603600e95bd980a627c3becdc5f2b9062da3d01da94d36b5f1bb82cb933a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12369 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 53569bfd7174ba4a5084e8c4b27da0d59dbaaad296a601e71519f2fc6ec06705