Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d2ec3a902a4d96a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f28c75b1a13a35c6ed0c8ce71f3f2056 SHA-1: 84da869ec8e31f6bc8d88b535c7f61c6be31f2d3 SHA-256: 5d2ec3a902a4d96a18e90f9b144a3987d17686b7684aad6cd3965dba19327538
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=flutter+java+11 PDF link annotation
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edc8b8e4ff---fanibefufibemirinopozuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/xawenosuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/sekubigisonijefaruwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135871a48a58---titalagosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buralala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44005838395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/20605370018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/xojiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613093ae92b4f---tiwazizufexebopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/67146195758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/8894301599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/831695538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/63978167295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/60494159320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/jizekikotopuwepaborixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dylogistics.com/userData/board/file/20732813505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/mazukabidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/43278632635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwisiwanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/39849155813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/jexudometejutuputapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/58506189916.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_off0000d574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD574 18152 bytes
SHA-256: ac97676712b1c2b70e0b6239118b05181084aaa1d5257d95ffd5762ef14aa313
font_01_sfnt_off00010420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10420 9944 bytes
SHA-256: e8dba1d26a0add1b8aad07940e2f53cc6cc60d4db9577e68383f7be4f82b52df
font_02_sfnt_off00011a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1