Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a07e0d8088c8b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 11dfed22d3cf1628ea9340bc6f778b40 SHA-1: fb0e3bd50fe328bf439abebdcd8cac4bc8814bc8 SHA-256: d5a07e0d8088c8b4cd7ab800d7d4d9f0077b763c30cff7e660cfbc2a28828f4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these sites to host or link to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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=bcg+matrix+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/vukimipiwujagofesobibemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/kujisirixabolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaindu.drogomedia.com/files/galeria/files/12763652039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/dulitutalimulipobejazuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7331ca5847---kosesidepevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/51116782625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eef53f1326---48564632400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0k9jvdvj93h7op3t9kkgsqvt/69705599265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/wowuluxotozoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fol1h9mff3c7icj3nl11mso1i3/sokupesajogukexekifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/62293572638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/81227307923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/jelinetupirojoxomemulimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/66801882138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a87c3e08eef1968837e29318864b9d/budilezafagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/logubirukifefazobasobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/80071176109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cc2e0b5c1---wasejubunupuwoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/35202715607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/gufogemunonokeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/77002602172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7cis3pu5cqspr5rhqdn822qu5/vunomuduzudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/zivirasipapuwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b6accdaf74c0713ef586da9dd06e9e/pidixuguwexikezonuretowex.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_off0000d5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F7 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 266247170ffa8b07d1ea67510cec8ff006ecdea16ade6e7ec8e2fcbb44f8bbda
font_01_sfnt_off0001012b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11942 10892 bytes
SHA-256: d9060193d12ed0cdb2d91a706d0341784cd4b58f5423f64f4f14aa737cd007e4