Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53dcefd7c50adc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b42322e52a9bd2325edf4c04e2dc046d SHA-1: e60b2755756014c467749c4b0a0996aa829ea0e7 SHA-256: e53dcefd7c50adc56cd9ae010c5a89f9a382076e7bcfd82ee821b8efda62d649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malware or visit malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1838168915.pdf
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51471465609.pdf
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/wiwebimetekaxivejuzalu.pdf
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/bekekuno.pdf
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/xawotegalefem.pdf
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/83415074680.pdf
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/97491292873.pdf
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/14463814784.pdf
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/libamu.pdf
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/163085773857368733667.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog/file/83613231251.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b2b32daa20fe0e08f8f7619cfa9828b/63589039053.pdf
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/57246307019.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135aad28b490---52166379920.pdf
    • https://terracell.info/images/file/97709903883.pdf
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/53226646973.pdf
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/vizugo.pdf
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210912091249.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5kjn0hh44u0avvrh0ggstf2ag/sorapusawutag.pdf
    • https://nurdagihaber.com/resimler/files/87217549474.pdf
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sataferukutedajeba.pdf
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/80511599012.pdf
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96834626612.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b1a3cf5d6---93533062412.pdf
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/nopuz.pdf
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/94960184982.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pokeone+game+download+for+android
    • 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_off0000b51b.bin
97cc8f8567e4741bd266d2eb068cdce606cfc6e353da7b03fe85c26abeae35f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51B 14976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db02.bin
957ad2cb695571766e6530d21914ba75cc0909d63dcebcce26bf2e664a4f037f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 10612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f310.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF310 16792 bytes