Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5057395a782b32aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:59:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0e62f6399483d7d71b829f0b56ceeed4 SHA-1: 8243021932d2300a34545243d3e43efddafc4aeb SHA-256: 5057395a782b32aabf2ed758986750982a052870c798352311a3094aaf829abe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to various domains, including compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary purpose appears to be distributing malicious content or facilitating phishing attacks through these redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.bash.cl/media/file/labusaxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ab4310a92---64111998324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/88078252078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l9dmg3ak1cv3im65b66bjlo4n/jujeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/pageniwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61e38247mgcc21th38avf8do2/9024679014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe6581be0fd---54142378459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db65379c737---jupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/48448785337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomilizufijifiwexineguwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/munupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/40869418735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f65af7eaa8---dudovekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e356c61b292ca0e64bd4fb32fbfffa7a/85426355633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/bogigenevadabirodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/61912627105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/86066454527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/49262299726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/99672670187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210716152845714123flnug0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/fizifoxikidixelotiroget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/dewikejifobezunesebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/5035654379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/timufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/34624621332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=english+bull+terrier+brown+and+whitePDF 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_off0000dfd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E5 18404 bytes
SHA-256: f94f737d713ee3f3ced054b32a3e262d5487cfecee0af407ae3a3645a36f9133
font_02_sfnt_off000127d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D2 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7c0bb7ee96da3bc0999046bf7de791036610b28cda4e4b1fc385cb0d4533b3