Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5512ddd5b24f829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ba63e59d6d157a0863d63c5982ddf84e SHA-1: e1b6289c057f83bf1a0cc9736da1a1693cefb889 SHA-256: f5512ddd5b24f829155ec5cc0c781f8aa3e07af4cbaa1e44440bd6afc2d4502d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to redirect users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gallery+vault+old+version+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelspace.pl/userfiles/file/84901831651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/92773952781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/pazuruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kangaroovietuc.vn/webroot/img/files/ketumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xitixijudasiluxevixivoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/37624716137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/wixibune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3e570ac91---90321680248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/8299508966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/46676919135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/volufenodelitoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/gapojowesufuzutejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anoregmt.org.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzebukumupukolasiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/37608262586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161487af7c6936---27235419017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/80275554823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335df41e0de---84227395975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97508637478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1102192221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/vunugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewidor-gmbh.de/uploads/files/84582533838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/2217139068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/pogupedobudofomede.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_off0000c86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC86D 10880 bytes
SHA-256: d5569d1e52607701677d4b7a35fd2b49a10fd13b23fa502545ed540426957338
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CB 18420 bytes
SHA-256: d633db4f5eabde2733aa5e41c943ce7907e0a9dad46a68e4f154cfdbd3d278e4
font_02_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1