Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d49d2d0d1aca6e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 314f47271c7f9bcded66749e7e4a0d49 SHA-1: fb6eee71bac4f5c20ab7fff0ead58f90578c44f3 SHA-256: 5d49d2d0d1aca6e94cf9a47f592e9c84d87f29045f21ceefb529e00ae2123d20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations used for hosting files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

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 http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca05986f65---xuzozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/41556177040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97619221091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59a07f04decbfa4e3cb3e2e7fda861e/jugemifejukolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78effca3b2b25ee7d1c73405eb17d96b/lamuzirelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/jurevakowivuzavudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ativn.com/upload/file/42454687175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/23794351452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/pitasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/76764481354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnificenttreks.com/userfiles/file/72479256620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/figimumibevefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/vowokexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs6lua2teugk7q9mdma2voqft5/68823368895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/sumoneguxatesidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53a472cc94e416a7c98888b236b82fd/89090815269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamusazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465b16bfb8c666d99fa309d6824f0c79/18830534662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba2af9dfd51fa04e14e4b17638e7e98/81389898882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210630091013_htygng.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/56202692084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/94718153786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mahabharat+full+bangla+pdfPDF 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_off0000b78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB78A 10496 bytes
SHA-256: be75f13d770f00c4a3f62f5d887b3d3136b24542912059fc806d47a9c21d509b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEDB 18116 bytes
SHA-256: ab465c4b421d414f75b22e99f6a93e9729dfa0675c321110aef17493bda8a325
font_02_sfnt_off0000fde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1