Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d544e2297ada7753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 11:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7fc8a6e5fe10542e00b9f6feb1ce7d63 SHA-1: 91cbd1ce1cd3d7eb99c374edff6bbba99989e14a SHA-256: d544e2297ada775346e9a9cfc64220643edab53e2fffb03e828a009c4b3f6dbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution document. The heuristics identified numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attack pattern involving luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=optimizing+app+1+of+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86721571719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/zugukoraper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/teridumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dauglita.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/34143604645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijiantu.com/filespath/files/20210922205227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1269955195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/rejilerizudonepugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingspa.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/94135603121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/lufusebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/san475ksd7dsmtf1kerk4md5lp/33183904277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/78465274860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbaoge.com/upload/files/96990968838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e63071c43779e2ef2df7f189a8b1b871/gesizuvolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/6635749753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9e75781ea---48712449089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/72567298618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/bagemefatuvuxawororofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyc-catering.pe/disac/userfiles/file/pipufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/zebazoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giga.sk/storage/file/xidobiviwixejilakukasopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/tazekuladusete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327ff19e362---semosoviwopamip.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_off0000d76c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD76C 10392 bytes
SHA-256: bc05752c65c14bcb7e52938b53195a744ecc61cf8535aaef6e20570854a29ec6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF05 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 0fe93203e70e4d2f2dc9d73f7e7e03a7bcef190fd42cef6e20e5227313dffc31
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1