Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168c5f38bedb17ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: da88f9fd4392abeed3b2ff35578de61b SHA-1: 7b1360739369527b0e467d94a3895091f945eead SHA-256: 168c5f38bedb17ed7bca5fddba1695653e76024ac487a4a79437f45287a32517
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised or suspicious domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/55534381833.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01bc3543ec2492426629ec9ee9f1b3a1/latepaduwodateri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/57588853901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/31525622359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa2473d03---78821191241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfe17dccc5---zezoliravukijixokefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2ecc5ac0c84736535b75b45bad36dd/masoguzapilifatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960111da22c---matupeguzuzotijitubeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/gikubali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3370eabdaf6f1bc1997a28e873721fa4/46466106900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/3858359286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/wamakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b963a4822---noxanuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b81e9271739c7fa4759d1330705d2b9/xavufibanoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749c1181729---80342815538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ac4f41ffc73398ad90e2e549404319/xulexixosinisuwubugemogod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606fd58bb8e99---10159307495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6rnuu9kn1b0qo8tuva7t63d23/lusejidofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5147f8e378ded7905ee35471e5d5283/morekigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/41616559500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/24669185002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3rfv6a9vk5ntmcolc7bkgn7r7/dolebokikumedoxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/47901926830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/64863932378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=macos+finder+select+multiple+filesPDF 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_off00010225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10225 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A37 17280 bytes
SHA-256: edd0895fffcf62719f29e7d3f436f3d2edea7a13bb6ba4f7791a0d7493f85928
font_02_sfnt_off0001472d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1472D 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 9e47db4efb95f6513c5bbb2eefce195ba4f789e4b3f2af1d0c178756f9718265