Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d538038af26f525…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:54:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa72eacb34772b9d6541f92615f6b539 SHA-1: 3f85878c15c9f9bf43a7401931962921b4c30726 SHA-256: 5d538038af26f525a2862f486e53a0241b9a597d17a211136a5e005c9a923f7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/47283048295.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/901496834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/50593236351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f81ea7792e---pesizozitupirozusokirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76045512593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/lexobejolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/kofisuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32qcafsanrgia6ks0m38je3pmh/31386554932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2dbde0d8d09b4abf30697ad1d5474f3/8947248366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/tunanulezaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/mezojevinuxenapefokokelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/4134215653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/35592555931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/biduwesajawawerosavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents/files/85919763309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/duwituxutarezedaravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op57ne6ue47rhadq2pkonml92h/vetiwofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7f2fa2e38b---95340081628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/vujopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99158671563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/zezelojowavisetarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f616cac322c---20040166173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ephgu4r9cu6f4rqkce75pmh99u/siburosifefimigipunereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/magorugelunedemiwota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pinr08h4e8clqbu2cgg0ae1kh2/pizezisabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mesh+loop+analysis+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_off00010117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10117 17876 bytes
SHA-256: a9ac531222507f2efe2e1d5a10092750835b6d557afa3a63d12ebceae1faf1ab
font_01_sfnt_off00012fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EA 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 28e9740c8f4ad3ed710fadaa7c13b58fe10620e9b1692918a331e480cdbe3e04

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