Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e46019e56fc785…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3c09b42e2efb23b69a80c6eab7ee395e SHA-1: 7781f0f23c95aa7fe367222971436cf0a8c6b833 SHA-256: a5e46019e56fc78510d11c3d0418b56f2930abbccceab362798f677d9162b5de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=osi+reference+model+with+diagram PDF link annotation
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/75799959451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/kuvixazipagupulefumila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/kuxejudenarazaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datenglagi.com/contents/files/mubuwowutumuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73f26072f42789cc5096c726eb15c999/fopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379d64c612b---lobakegisaxumitefulupomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/musaponokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwhe.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagiwixefiwofanesivobaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/mapomujixuferebubogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/90354086247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/45172868383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b5fc8e8eb---vawudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugufelunedagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de7938db3a3a7f05200bcfc3e641460/92539522193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingswaytyres.com/project/kingsway/uploads/file/zukewadaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39520715545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/73889255991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofevejulagitanewofunoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/82109528983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7b333b4a9---xebarajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidrometa.com/images_upload/files/11541526009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/69483739848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/gekenugigalewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b53cb73fc2d771749bde0f307f51252/69166590713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentralperdana.com/file/saradipilugijasegud.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_off0000dce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F5 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 2afb5e3ed8bee09dffb6dd998374e7c791b9a7f1375fca70e016ae5018f00174
font_02_sfnt_off000123bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BD 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 7595a4c9c24c31f0ca513ab9c9b29bc91acbb276a0bb237d91e230aaae04a301