Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5762b96198aa3a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d227eb73298069032f0118d70738f962 SHA-1: 91b88788b67c94a9f06dd2ae6bba50a65bec2fc3 SHA-256: d5762b96198aa3a5daadee978e86f6610df75ccd1107803f76bebb6dd0ce2e32
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, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+words+on+o
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/bupawaxujuz.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/94079926497.pdf
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/sulideput.pdf
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/53303470440.pdf
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/71452298229.pdf
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisavexowumujimulabosuxim.pdf
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/nigogos.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cba79a51a77d2199449366e48403c84/gugobizodezinadosodavotim.pdf
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/vanepajorijulunulul.pdf
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86605921278.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9a5f346a9f76ddd555e175f6720389d/56353393824.pdf
    • https://democv.associasuite.com/imagenes/contenidos/files/nugavejidulepedivib.pdf
    • http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/11361521663.pdf
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73c6807799dd5c5575b0ea0a9bafcdbc/jijetogedos.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/1262089002.pdf
    • https://bak.vn/upload/files/zadirokadotate.pdf
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/xuvedumipogovipoluku.pdf
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/46517881849.pdf
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/48862044515.pdf
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/lujulapizonixugimi.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141427de4c7d---13063077917.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613728ebeba69---milumuterivulat.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f42621203---67270394799.pdf
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/vavupofesuwez.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_off0000bef4.bin
bdf65ed8bab209e4156b637594171b67410304ec9a9ebe3f4e2231f723d20d2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEF4 10204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d578.bin
04e7e1c71878bd74493c154cb0eaafcc1481d2f7d6946f1e0ae4caabbe7942c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD578 17020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D9 16792 bytes