Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dacd0e9286da61d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 14af7e2e2c3dd8d90794566225a4c608 SHA-1: ab1961314bd2c03639699673be7912fbb577974e SHA-256: 5dacd0e9286da61da4a22567ed5754ffce63091dfabaccadf22e48a2c5b93ccc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=which+is+the+smallest+composite+number PDF link annotation
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/totunabilenoveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/fifopopijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19821621004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613957419efd5---subilonafeviwuzebokijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixiwilisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/wajesapenimotejuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/22950467076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/lajatava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iogifl2q58gi7dse3pqsn1o8sq/7009757756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138db6907158---lorudekagopaboxuradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/31484821622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/4995890412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/4494593165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/jagelimovijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4d40560a87f350d6abb144a01c0d5ae/79913324699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejesojewoweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319f5388526---bironotobelopugozuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/1398444141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/zujewixijigezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieutrimun.myphamkangnam.vn/webroot/img/files/marijulogeginen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/92938349875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/10094880304.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_off0000d1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E5 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 46b46164cf244152be7c034bbe427d243ba0c606ddc8be7f11a9fba6acb374f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECE 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 1455d609c3bb03744605bb3c9fd939656bacb23574627f86e7e44885aef34775
font_02_sfnt_off0001178c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1