Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e5751fe8b45e07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dde1eaad6981b4f387d3bbc21fa5b90d SHA-1: a54bb7a6236f7bc5bbc8d4c65a06c5f83778b73b SHA-256: a1e5751fe8b45e07eed53090bd7c405dec0100600ec3768c93887104acf487cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=friends+movie+marathi+online
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/92474243432.pdf
    • http://skene.es/userfiles/file/7549843708.pdf
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/bupisubil.pdf
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexedosarajegobeb.pdf
    • http://radtel-sport.pl/userfiles/file/5118590970.pdf
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40935332272.pdf
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7936261849.pdf
    • http://ukrkarta.ua/fckeditor/userfiles/file/28481900816.pdf
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41506357231.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613331d54bd86---38595078475.pdf
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubalojivasezajajajizep.pdf
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/pixuxejexewixalolad.pdf
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210905050151.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c122d96dd---96612272106.pdf
    • http://haihengpharm.com/upload/files/46019920291.pdf
    • http://bajkolandia-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/kagoremolexipudapuroruxis.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9qlsupgrhjq643aohs3i8core2/28499031002.pdf
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinajiluxejezup.pdf
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamorabusidagujewevezu.pdf
    • http://getsolarnj.com/userfiles/file/vezozi.pdf
    • http://haiannweb.com/uploads/files/14251879224.pdf
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/43928752307.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evu7ne9v2b2psr8vap9hb14g9s/44241011880.pdf
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/99842967656.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_off0000b9c9.bin
11158baa186a55086d4b3817d438bcf7391c59da0cf6b8c2ba586b0353ee32a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C9 10556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1a5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9b7.bin
5e2ed5a99b50ddd3cdab9da74ca4c11b604eb5ce0806383c62f0048b47cc24f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B7 15512 bytes