Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b5a5bd006ed3496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fc83e3cdeb0204aa6e9451bcfb5afb99 SHA-1: 805631b83eca773df2c589969bc62b7fb43d6dec SHA-256: 9b5a5bd006ed349610efaf60d99b0e23a477ca5a505ddf967b9b2d3a6a9a2d5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elegy+written+in+a+country+churchyard+analysis+pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/fezutorivapijuj.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47deccdba6d4068cf6c9cccd82a3b2b/zijivem.pdf
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/nevolejelanowen.pdf
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejik.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc225de0bda8a20e9faaee20653554cd/99621915464.pdf
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/42956750721.pdf
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/88969261297.pdf
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/88083654234.pdf
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/katosedulotujub.pdf
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28135617149.pdf
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/74256076872.pdf
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/71110942754.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0n6uib1jhea3es6v8mtjlrmnp/pojibupinuwavifiwokakar.pdf
    • https://totounited.com/contents//files/80396931398.pdf
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/72874915886.pdf
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/52177394436.pdf
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/zuzanurojufuvozo.pdf
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/dalunas.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2d61e3b91fbd8c0e7052d44c944ed9/xusotawidanelogikot.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fc1a50263---44342313098.pdf
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71081890463.pdf
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32966807832.pdf
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/59481818240.pdf
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/bovatevavoxurip.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996ced7586f---77187293891.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_off00012fb4.bin
913b1deb5c49067d7902028abc946e4d117db93a8199af0781f1b3da25f324f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB4 18300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015f3e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F3E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017755.bin
2d889439e41288ed168532ab727f3ebc35260be19f8e779bedbef244b26aa4b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17755 11180 bytes