Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5daeac0355d2f449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3c610c23f76c7019f25d1dc5d1688cfc SHA-1: c78ce8dc3f2acac3a580cf9fcd7bb8bf3a0b0aae SHA-256: 5daeac0355d2f449d3920a1db9f7e2db7a7c7bb588ac12080072cbe293ff79e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=characteristics+of+non+governmental+organizations+pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/resinize.pdf
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/71746016958.pdf
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/5011176709.pdf
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/mojojo.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/66128593230.pdf
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/zanik.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607079185e5d9---vizeguw.pdf
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e53766ae06c870412b43772b33eacc6c/21965469025.pdf
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210907071949.pdf
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92b611e11d---konodawiga.pdf
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/17899246097.pdf
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/rifadasurajavit.pdf
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/12374370053.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa7e85a2e956cb976a2b5a603f1a102/pisiwivezikex.pdf
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ldfp47fesadl1oisidr9plm1/mibijimobunasijax.pdf
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/rolujel.pdf
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/rivikadivaviluk.pdf
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/wipik.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949ebb94369---40272285770.pdf
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90858636475.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b3fc07cb198362a974be63de83987b4/5168572300.pdf
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/89442726263.pdf
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/97919483699.pdf
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/zewoxodupebeluvowam.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e6c08f0f1df2f17fdaffda78e13d69/52592478090.pdf
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/11317878647.pdf
    • 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_off0000db4c.bin
7357ad6e79ea9dd865bbcaa083d6f6c04131c9e3a0e02e27fbfb4c948cfeb84a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4C 15844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103eb.bin
8fb6ced4456107f38b677c982761718cf01513762e639b2638668bf90ff2169d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EB 11224 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011dec.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEC 16792 bytes