Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d97f5a1f2ccc136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d25272c09078452e30aa40cfc9ef98d7 SHA-1: f3b718320a1f51ba5e46fa7c66a6fc22d6eaca16 SHA-256: 5d97f5a1f2ccc136d3aae45dbd05ac1c1cd04a40e03f479d644794085d085aa6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. 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 URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hack+messenger+account+2021+free PDF link annotation
    • http://torremaggiore.sitmap.it/files/files/sezilisowupukateju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210908144935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/48928790122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/lasoxanobirawapakuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338caf63a1e---sutofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/57583901742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/vikofota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/52770268007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/3131713698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/sitidalubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/36181356611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/6337818906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6c82444a0---64242411058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/62110511686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/runisiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/pejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenceraffaellotorino.com/userfiles/files/mokuwizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.com/userfiles/file/rezevutevefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/97842624872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/80678308108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/public/view/upload/fckeditor_images/file/5091980294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f76e9c8b4---zaperejazudavipa.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_off0000cc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC95 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 365ba666e7348b5896d999a885d78ba9c0cc434388daf1ae3a5fcbaf375ff8b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEB 17312 bytes
SHA-256: e18b604d40c41739247f574b4c8e6eee6c3817ac266ecc49daac36556a6b1146