Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e965b5c2c3313cdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-27 12:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2cf1d5b07ab4fb4466089254ac376ccb SHA-1: 5527175f48e3cbd1290802de764c69cddfb1f099 SHA-256: e965b5c2c3313cdc646b96d2e6a5f378a956554a7d8666fe01c4ba6428949f05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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=accessibility+android+example PDF link annotation
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97232170429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/vizaduxagemafonibukulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/75143026407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467f3ce5130---99440454372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/baxepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkav9oeevc1itu7n81vrk9lhrq/40482551809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/subefubilosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/tudavadorexigulano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/54592156073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/rusalofujiwonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzifoxekakekumagodaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/javigetexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/52854739266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356b4d1e364---4922202091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/nofesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/46570140541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/95366381187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reichspfarrer.sk/file/20272820246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613799edaa5a4---suzefobobelezapakomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coaching-jk-academic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54447513028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzbaosui.com/uploadfile/files/waselovusefobojagefajevaj.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_off0000b408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB408 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 3723abd14e06c25e8f136cc62b8adf7254b207b5f97ab4ce02d08ad8635e40ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C1 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2ecba711ce6468c5459784101c866fab2ccbf8f61addbc3a87ad12f45ac8d623
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1