Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e5c12eb405797a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-10-06 17:15:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 94ff7fd59c40ba1d708729238a2e507d SHA-1: 566944650d9a1a9cd61efda1cfe2a47eb02643bc SHA-256: 5e5c12eb405797a4c80ae19129a8c94b273a82a25ea0259e9e86c78d2e26ecf5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of an embedded JavaScript stream further supports malicious activity, likely for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=signing+over+legal+guardianship PDF link annotation
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/jonirusoxotexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harshahometutors.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/gabuzavemelunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpsystem.com/files/fck/tojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/zanowonulosegubawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads/files/202109080521529663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdab96232b---pojumetasapogetixexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/sujixifedariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/towegunaxelobidove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20211005012902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/94988483530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/39413992775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53795593363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/53040778973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613099d3e968a---wisoratezopipipisurutuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madhubanindiancuisine.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/22351189694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9ebt61mvbs1a2j3i4fcj7tqa4/22017499196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/fuwudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/nujonososawepufodovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1456572585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-tlg.com/files/file/dasedezikokotulewopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/32504290375.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_off0000fed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E9 20924 bytes
SHA-256: c621ff624db932594d9bae4f5e5aa553ee433c347457c9a38d000669c9209010
font_02_sfnt_off00014bf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BF8 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 190cbb6e4e1da0a4852257c09a2a2aafdd05e48221d1bb7ed944df41be55932b