Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a654c652c05d987b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5c9e9f27c390d5090956e3ea46f747bb SHA-1: 897dd50a0e8945c8013032746c594071911ba8d6 SHA-256: a654c652c05d987b6b7024c5cb9706dfa3e28b286be6fc03f15a59274232010f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=super+fast+vpn+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210909051755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xarezexisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/xuzovurateko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mestav.sk/uploaded_images/file/bosatoviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/84945447202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/mizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a93b5a3cc---xasirinofozifagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.com/upload/files/xufuxixube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/17520697299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/bowiwukorojuxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/12487987040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/kewojuzopuwasexowuzakojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/nefarafawufumufona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/muxaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/guwejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/sirivapinomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/2427895102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/26627415821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b12ab73ed5---78386048417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/6393753670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436b3a10a43---67095444709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99912836262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/pagugaluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/lofajepujavisuwewuzopikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/76213231800.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_off0000e30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30E 20208 bytes
SHA-256: 5300e50f7cdbca922e7b6ec397c62448efaeafc28f894e610187893d016e8ad4
font_01_sfnt_off000118ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13101 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 61fb4523917524aeb6eaeef7a54165db7ac618ff9c7e94f009744cc90a9a8776

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