Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954921ae52a88e49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 01:16:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cc448a52eb9c7b69e3b3e418ec62f81e SHA-1: ada6ab600d45cebf92e39b398031e3ef5ec72555 SHA-256: 954921ae52a88e4913ad90ea03b17f70a009ceef621694f4b83f6364a706f802
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A7anta+yay%C4%B1nlar%C4%B1+7.+s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+fen+bilimleri+ak%C4%B1ll%C4%B1+defter+indir PDF link annotation
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dafc7b6c27b---70250074314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/31547734223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c083ab69513b359215b5475f0b6c5f/todumevoboxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a515ad5e9---57405204473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/mebupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e39f3488de0---63610440270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institutdesante.org/userfiles/file/jirerotukewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f105eaac7ef---51556400400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zivubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betaempire.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/96401268389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/vumuvugozoripudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d317509eb3---19647079513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/setofefule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/vupikekezekawapebasosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/516495220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/tevukimoravuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/57517170501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/61567333391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d795ae60c309c7ca0217bfa8e23f5f/xodibuletanugafenibumubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/23835463310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/68258258691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/23624918341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revekijivagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92aec0bcf53a0bdc114634157e8cda82/43684952698.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_off0000cccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCCC 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2289882a93aef5fa026b55ee4924e8fcaaad62d0f16c30d6214e09545f62fc83
font_01_sfnt_off0000e661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE73 17240 bytes
SHA-256: a2cc3052bbc35bc426f6ce9cf32bb45b6667a9f2b02961b563ab3c10659d2c69