Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e30268a585e5466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4f68cc815e707f5bd47061093c4ce467 SHA-1: dceefcdb39bd3c60c8097acd7eaf0d455c69f00f SHA-256: 5e30268a585e546635feec3af5024572e4d78071a93f728b1c6ed934cddd4910
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such links, often associated with phishing or malware distribution campaigns. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crossword+puzzle+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_81614A4C6B1775B6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/dujazapopazuwivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/lotemunajawanoxusegabofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/pulujufebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///85454243841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/jadekakiwimipiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/wusaxosilifozenebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/13295298393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078acafd9755---malerunebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/48248373674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/wijevukovomolegudopajazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66050551447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctc9g4h1irsnnqtv2447nkjl8l/mosabasididij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38194383259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12472703543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0879e9974f---wazoxixuvujifelasobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/samukumipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47baf2aef44e505c055fc2b3b813aa15/70189729706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/52251304465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bbbc819100ddfadaf23c4315296cdb8/44959999005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/64729693693.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_off0000d1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EC 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 440a60cdb3caade6269981200374c6a0bcc77714cd89350b32a0b87f1b227103
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11612 10796 bytes
SHA-256: d8bd99339a2e945a90f9cb4e997b0e3c7b52ba1dd92d820a92b99ef7d4f01173