Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e2aa27ce7efd903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d7cfb2b03295a740bc296f3a4f5995ee SHA-1: 4bee39d5fa8508a232129b433b71832a9299be3f SHA-256: 5e2aa27ce7efd9032377c3550f7cfaa4f0f9bd818c729de961facdeb15d410ff
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains. This strongly suggests a phishing or malicious redirection campaign, where users are lured to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+communication+from+principles+to+practice PDF link annotation
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/250449154003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/fajekegesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8e96f8857ee406f005a0864fd553d2/91199770708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/14275856055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adebb8749f8---87198995307.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94bd092946---96397724736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda37db4c08---pufivinikifupojaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/doliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/zexirowivapoxomasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087da70e0e10---96583971031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/42002255310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/tolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/wutuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busuzigubabavizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccd90a33af7f38b05c10da12d5633a2/luwudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab752c9b226---36589579795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/zirizebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5c7b1de35---nonajuborakosadifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/77524340250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/78290331447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8605383ab50565538306108fb1e9c659/85138369753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upsshop.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66808670768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc97713f5c6095d6e31fe50414bee364/38669771430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608542404cefd---jojirivelasezubova.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_off0000f492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF492 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 156e8c85b6b2d2ed0555758042806b603465d12ca72b12b7f97a2ace471ea2bc
font_01_sfnt_off00012135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12135 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001394c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1394C 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 02768fd73f94396c5ebcee603127cd5b2d9d9e2a76b6eae5a9cceb15bb31e237