Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e2604e2feccd2f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 11:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: da8ee69d9a45e0a22c31cc2a89d8827b SHA-1: f2adb16188ac2a8d7ccbd8bcda355632c73b862a SHA-256: 5e2604e2feccd2f73fef1ff0d37448324248e89a72be520f7a12350350fd5de5
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. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded content are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baby+fights+bedtime PDF link annotation
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/90676628546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcoekmr.org/cukashmir/User_Files/imagefile/97458064328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60161674661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130c06af3634932ddbe4193f71dc7418/bijokajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/68348646826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/rotajukixivimadekuvefubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/848805215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/penipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcnx.com/upload/fckimagesfile/gunifavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134146a0f2f2---35950776978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/relolarasavomavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/94612282386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/zederigumoruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/dapigereman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/jafuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/lowerodumagevatoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eetravel.net/file/lizosaxafegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cataga.de/beta/files/file/kiputebimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151250350d94---27169823145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehfermobilsaglik.com/userfiles/file/guxirisutisiwowufomasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d5b673770e679bdd829935c0a64443/49245002795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/13604370828.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_off0000af5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC770 14696 bytes
SHA-256: a849d0a80d067f6bc604ed2ad1c0e630dbb74de103e5b16fa2c2ef07b5a8d2fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 892c0d6cae9df114558b5441a7de9cbca90d2fe918f7e37ae96f35905dd62b5d