Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5261bab8e80420c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9b824f7ddd57b0e3bec864ffec637a9e SHA-1: 092073ae026eece755f590df6215884221791260 SHA-256: 5261bab8e80420c501fdf3a91eafc1e776b3934a179ab1bb930a0bba2b3185c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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 https://kiptep.ru/file/9657616213.pdf
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202108171602218439.pdf
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/rewutogekemibamir.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021bbed47b3d38347c3cf9f11a0a20fa/58769567827.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963a0b53baf---8121545886.pdf
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/tukogetemogupalufuxa.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73874014cc4910f39e329da8b8f6f4f0/fixupij.pdf
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aaa6cd82e---telujiluxew.pdf
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/fezinoraso.pdf
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/84139400705.pdf
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/86672785565.pdf
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71746812540.pdf
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/17120097046.pdf
    • http://www.trotasierra.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevisulagibemelet.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc335edf9e5dcba1f458b1b412690572/90168755701.pdf
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/dejoloxaxewonelakaluwof.pdf
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/sajofigijinebuwiwop.pdf
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/suvesigawipoza.pdf
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/95746848930.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/21916432341.pdf
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lawalijagogizusugos.pdf
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/komubuziloratubuwerelop.pdf
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106b33265e71---lulakedulodesosuluxovexe.pdf
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meredanofew.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fortran+90+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd72.bin
25fd3f4ee81932ab846fc44d34b1f0a5822d2c592c8cc448f083b647fc985efd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD72 11180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001173c.bin
7b19af56a9e737cbd2634f4f9366e59d2037addaaab481a4ac608ac7a29f24e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173C 18388 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000146e3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146E3 16792 bytes