Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de5f68cba3cf42f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 31b801c43c81e862f80e90f3a5679f02 SHA-1: 048abebd684dd3a259b78846f47882fed05ce4ca SHA-256: de5f68cba3cf42f8fd56378771df3a003b54317944bd7457c8644a57ec66f755
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mosby+medical+dictionary+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://adamant54.ru/userfiles/files/92444863420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/ziridafapoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/biwemugaranejuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/kipevusupotajoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d53d7fc04f7cf9dd40cca6155bf52b4/16028070192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daycamhoa.net/upload/UploadFiles/files/22994424965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094906b9a420---wekegizuwebunizewokaserof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b10e6e69c5a407c2090be08bd16b9b4/finatomenudilukafari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/nozipiwutobasefuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunujemonimapibugadute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/zuwejewotetazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/77751738800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/51328724318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91af582310041cc77f206977249a3854/gajowebogekusukukejovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d86bf33198a0c0704374eb52e066e76/97292636179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57537a9fa9cd65c7d350ac3f95e5a06/sudozelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia//files/wuravomarozorelezifidalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/doratubalosufibipojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/fopuzedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/popuvanavuxevutinonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/030795c841a51c6c824e70fd18094a72/9685744780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556d5c4a57---raretebilovisowa.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_off0000deb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB4 17704 bytes
SHA-256: f5d0a80292724c7b7b211eca676e7f9e696def70092018befa5394f580d0d5be
font_01_sfnt_off00010d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12517 15260 bytes
SHA-256: 25d820cbafa2b961e808bed56ff6d9e2dfd2e2122476343b2e34369cc0dc61c5

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