Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 854a9c93061c4ba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:11:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 59bbbfc9c319eccd56b4455364a8b215 SHA-1: 7b79c3f8971fdcff908e5453dba3ee579ea4e958 SHA-256: 854a9c93061c4ba5b20771c1aae8da0328701bbfe5994a703b23b36e2cba4e7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, under the guise of file converters or downloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest the document is designed to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abbyy+pdf+to+word+converter+free
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/gowibarobamanekuxuvozim.pdf
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/bemeb.pdf
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc670e976a4b31df63807f81765a5c4/dapisagufog.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2vmuvot9phiv00g6p1u3kqs6p/35495598788.pdf
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b520e27a222442f414961c59e36fdb6c/49161505927.pdf
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/mevuwukune.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e21f1c301b2a1f50a781e0451bae00/mesimaxadelajodetixiju.pdf
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/32295415847.pdf
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/85082079366.pdf
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/zamonu.pdf
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37685122183.pdf
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wodobamob.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e9aef9b5e167b016d5066c95dd1c95/46846701822.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c68462bad---fitisovubowon.pdf
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210622011238.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16084cc10031fb---kosegapijotawisirogavu.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/95825128553.pdf
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/mafupabirogowopewuti.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79eb170e47bd2759de77a7bc43da434b/51534185842.pdf
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/65503218975.pdf
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b39f5bce76679292c2193c984670822/xusulijazozuvimo.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6e777c255---jomefanirega.pdf
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/20144943944.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83cfe49f584b764e48156b2ecdfc03b6/roguze.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7aae1248f4---4860925147.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000caff.bin
2cf2bfd8e04e1e574142eaba47eace04c5f023edd37ab4c65b80568eac30a205
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFF 16328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f584.bin
ecba637fe72a4c7749f39d980bb0d3adfedccde570d7ba8b9001ac227532bfa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF584 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d7e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7E 16792 bytes