Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f5d880f1fe2ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: c3729f2877a62d54bd45fb1b292dfe89 SHA-1: 3a1e1ee043de6e56cb25d9bb92a133df7fe6c0ef SHA-256: 00f5d880f1fe2ef80d8783e3e9398ea92dca1516f3daeb911feca2841a3812f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it may be used to distribute further malicious content or for SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4989284420.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j424t3fkqir2047qj56admk4e/5239765747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a6f9d0667---19356432037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdf23b7bfd7---noferopimoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/66033588009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merydian.pl/nowymerydian/userfiles/file/62849774205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siedpku0njmgjamarkvevr8lv5/31515836763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfmvoe17vg6tnbt131t7d0b8r5/kosamefumilisavuraboreros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddac0d1eb0b0d25966dc554a4742267/14803671636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed08f96b5b6e08faeb1d2bf479a41602/13988815976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a581385338a---noremik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/fuletexevaxevulixumuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81802242048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85799152138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avul6hdln9ql8chsu53ol0b8b0/28953625253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/66213927169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://focaccellini.it/file/zodisidigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/wekimuzinipopefelonagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/31353483896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/pelujigosikokarezolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210509054925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1e9b04ee30f9e814981fa5f8715604/55030750961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/kitarapuwisikogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac49826afd---nipata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+reaction+engineering+scott+fogler+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000be7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d68e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68E 17028 bytes
SHA-256: b93455c0f57eb70feb770cc94c397b30629b6a034783d238f09045e3ec2dafb2
font_02_sfnt_off000102c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C4 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 40ea54132c59c5c5a87a3d69b7a1250cae0693da8e3328b008e81da19e1d3df3