Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d94f630e70ffe8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1a619ca18a8f1de8eb8ea135a2088aff SHA-1: c9df9aedf226efc5806edb97be24bd538e6b6b5e SHA-256: 5d94f630e70ffe8a3a6e1607f8f95d08887cc208b9f641184a068215fd85ebdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://sparkpro.lv/content/file/16104133544.pdf
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/muvidojenosuposixozid.pdf
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210716222110750626ohf0i8ypci3x.pdf
    • http://oceanstatevolleyball.org/clients/879495/File/35365804341.pdf
    • https://trisyscom.com/userfiles/file/90985081179.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098546134f1c---51019128714.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5bqt0f0ue9sijmt5mumo5q896/62681131921.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80567978406a1b5d72a9b4988f4227df/32326020736.pdf
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/5482262158.pdf
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/tolifol.pdf
    • https://proxus.nl/file/17860978193.pdf
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6061707993.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61cd8dda37---93901616488.pdf
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/22521821210.pdf
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/rosomidoguvujazeroranotu.pdf
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8r3ghbl7l906arn0vpqbcrh3e/26361618025.pdf
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents//files/53936708353.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff80c5b6811---pagem.pdf
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/nelovuvuvakozabokedovex.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e0a8406d2---tuxodolewoturepadotovi.pdf
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83630558534.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=kiwico+reviews+australia
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f03b.bin
20179f46c940f57f880b1a885d1ff0c30a7ca090e7fe8fdee556f0bd17b9a1dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03B 17404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011dbb.bin
10a5a1a8eabb47e2fcf66efb3e8ae8e6588085bcbf8b602aa6ed96eebb78324f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBB 10360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013561.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13561 16792 bytes