Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee54d5337cb3b346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: df9d98b2d0dd63c92c3f3ceb7f505fd1 SHA-1: 126ca766fbaec88159074b60669fb9054672741f SHA-256: ee54d5337cb3b34607827b129027b92801a9525fd8854edacbb19cb0e1a38f2b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1+download+pending+chrome PDF link annotation
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/losomifuwazaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/40246607059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofox.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66936309528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/13525953431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/74935370245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210920010555591501f469kamdp77y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/nurami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb11vc4je0l1tgbtvh25tgdnm/tiresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolajelox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f236da88e---siwotovajiluvikesevuvizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/milifefevakebatatawofivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruburolikunudodagozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadexaketow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pu-sk.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73195491441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc9893b6b1---noxuvigevuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/24599951072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/lokawizeromanesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/40660367317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/17247776087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moutierrozeille.fr/userfiles/file/barukifizubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/74639491037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/91488563523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicostradi.eu/userfiles/files/lidomifamixirori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/86076759020.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_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 16920 bytes
SHA-256: ab334e705a2e55f6fd252a42c9c56e123f432a74e0298aa5c8af501c19ccc1a7
font_01_sfnt_off000104db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DB 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 66d5d3229f65676a06b08f3a23713c312e67999a255a84b02db8c9681e2b8298
font_02_sfnt_off00011d1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1