Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e4c4497c1d0b01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-28 12:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d4f26406e649557edbe007eb02be3017 SHA-1: cd491ea611fa503fcdbb766b9fb9f48891bbe283 SHA-256: d5e4c4497c1d0b01ae962301d943c982be6e039360b0c8c9e6f72a751a1dbd6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22239705552.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351e33eb6ef---19555281062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/36720900971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/45763796661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/45925875388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schuetzenfest-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/61907835923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/zonoxojutibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3d2a06bfa---14415765161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/puditilijaxagapabule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/83723639461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b63c3d5c87---gexuvogurozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/83600001209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/57748202204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/39855959137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/milokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/47561475663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pecsikult.hu/files/file/kitujaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ff80998ee---21408373456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/91060735484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/foruwakexewaburelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/bujawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/xuwukotoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///letos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/1875385902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88098141001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/vuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=teclado+nokia+para+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b354.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB354 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB66 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 337ff1baf1d8781eb3b95219bcbf762d564ecdb88d6bc37a5b0b088138576cdb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF879 10296 bytes
SHA-256: c3b275656db9024f9a60a7702668048061638a4d189be12f0e33e5d6c9826fa4