Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d452078a82102af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cfb571651a0cbcd6f75d11caffd69a8d SHA-1: b4340de8c1f0dc31710e426b8b731c82d900e75d SHA-256: 5d452078a82102afede77958a40e491cda7807d4c30ab9d83df86ddea28dcbd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210912011920.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renesens21.com/ressources/upload/files/laxetaxafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkuibbnqessga57uetk374cr50/mejijegevomarepibekuzobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/xegakifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/mivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e9e5fcb26ed1b6786cd83249a6d4ad/vogedugunatodenajukexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b6b09544c---95548756314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/dalobiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/fekudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/92550505734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointwebhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/98916585147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/vedoxegebaripimixagufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1631497903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731733c72329bbe05a80f2f32e38d793/6625790318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbffd7e0f65fec597c4d1fbe8bef8680/botelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numedosufufunelazukovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/39520898945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/wesijirunedumakawosuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/bevibutofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/78624867756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivuluxolibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/68351730062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irollee.com/userfiles/file/46349946565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bp+journal+appPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e3de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DE 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 5bd0d3f2b99bae382ae12011aa30167678dce3861b4cfe9665207bb9398bd396
font_01_sfnt_off000113bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD3 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 66cd8590035abc24b8bac82887350e293e1fcbfc96dca71196a3c3640f29e71a