Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5da7c24f76264bd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:49:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 20bc74947abb97cf7c96c1754209a1f5 SHA-1: ba4c6a8a652ac1af4c2c21eaac4380f671a6a5a1 SHA-256: 5da7c24f76264bd2f3fcc538f802394131b5d334818ae0de4f1902ee0a3aa0bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with a high ML score and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the overall structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/91539738661339849d4728.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/juligamajizegovojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/23515711822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/97773447797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87792683db7e5d1e0a15c720c78dd5a2/xanujajinafofitisupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/gabekebalafuwuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a786e612e---roxilutoxitovotajife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malafutujepawufofibamigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/gigevutozimunokerogazenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-exclusive.cz/userfiles/file/dazogozisegopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/41089096390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farnostbobrova.cz/ckfinder/files/86648009519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millinerandassoc.com/files/file/99353317340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatefirodanurirobadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archive-2014.humandoc.pl/attachments/file/29556503512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tivafa.hu/upload/file/jipaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents/files/68770628042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/40990553986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwort.de/userfiles/file/58055256798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabufajevojawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/25668733962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/podimazago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eld6n1ts6cfs7igead4b4q4c71/48344326726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+droid4x+emulator+for+pcPDF 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_off0000ecca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCA 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 1d13612e807c51cde2fe6372d265a2cfe8de6997a21ca693cf2e7ec5c8195250
font_01_sfnt_off0001065d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6F 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 0e91f09bd9df6ad754f2efb4fa6d677d21b78fce4bcdd97c745568594d3f388c