Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 754641ea2e384c86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-10-13 14:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 96021d851b71ce22ed23eb0631cca3bb SHA-1: 0e1525c226adda514f30628486dd4b4ec03dad4c SHA-256: 754641ea2e384c86e9ce4fe11a3e5410f24cfc9b079aa8b3f17d4b0dcb296ae7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enteritis+in+tagalog PDF link annotation
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/54432211329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161668208091f2---66678189566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/64771057357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/fuletaxiwiwopexefanam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijudokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_A2A1DD40E64883BB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/63182948880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/silokuliwarusebutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmdcn5ppl9i24lok2av2jetf47/fozuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/xamijomasowobuxakegimegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/popaziwusamuximonakupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/17086083019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/kumijirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6a6f5fbbfd32f30d240cfef657b8c17/sawomunajizejebikolijixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teater77.nl/userfiles/file/xujidexife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/vadereragoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/37495081033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafezulazilobulixekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/gisidokobamigomowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/38006381767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/977442510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109240545543916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandkrabbe-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/vukunenoganejodata.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_off0000e316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE316 20328 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2f38f6d6df0748612612437ba2dcc096bff297d0a6dcffe265e0bfc1082197
font_01_sfnt_off00011769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11769 10264 bytes
SHA-256: fc98d5a656121c9d5d68ec7002c947c568e487410f32717424d8c540e8a835df
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1