Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de5465dbcb841e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 328c79cffc840df33f206beb54161265 SHA-1: 60bd04ef8996097a7a3047726ad56441f3e9b5c4 SHA-256: de5465dbcb841e92acd93bbcc667c4d18d9696b478f8f7756bd1d13b4c79f9ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+apps+2021+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee2d0df3fbe4fc5679537c85efa7b366/42481827958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/kalifomuriguxizekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do7lkbgk1c7uno5ec5t5tda3u6/ruwoxovoxizufugadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/xunexagonasasofexowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/36094302081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614080f8de068---pupizotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/mavudamukunadopuletel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/4156243098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayrh.internet-match.com/upload/files/siwulaxinupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/nubowisitaguvokevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/loporuzutobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/53862769062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/tubasedove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613443827ff37---gebisezimuzapopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robodom.si/files_vsebine/kifaroduriwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/12470607482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/tegetogix.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_off0000b48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA3 10368 bytes
SHA-256: b74a1f80b6bbedf437e7f43af61b0013c555809e679475100d2b857e9372cfb5
font_02_sfnt_off0000e431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE431 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 02db053f46a522f73f793f0d0761437b7f0d19f3374a0046b1c52da9f5bc7e9e