Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e00c4748f64ef55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4d31584576644d5b1bd09bf204990802 SHA-1: 98b6f1104d762b08922abe898c8e0058921a8ea3 SHA-256: 5e00c4748f64ef557b79d26777c2af777656001d7669b52282a6856a49ff6a38
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 are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442a1125fa96944077d264361620d1b5/1200199485.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/ruwemadedolufufaxopalapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c794dd4b4a---40456286283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaetindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44185679469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/90008163425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71768788004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p96c0rdj5eg6fikopqe4ccets4/62636453046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/98914343040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/34347412015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csss77.com/clients/d/df/df7f2fdc42e243c7a03c192a8228c0be/File/73606355343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4cd071d68---sisaxugizodolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/15659138414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/jibugataralatenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/worek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da9b791d21663df34433db30adcb3e3/55800461231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/nidevojudososixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/10683572795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/84814480188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/jopujusawunowelison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/86550121182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/12478371655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/refusovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=rpp+koloid+pdfPDF 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_off0000e45e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45E 18556 bytes
SHA-256: d535b64195af2b36a400f8d6102c326e3aa9f51a90d42995213551c81f7a1a8a
font_01_sfnt_off000114e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E9 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 999b24506abd566e0edcd1b123789b9de191890be73f3bca1ae58503406cf231
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1