Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5290068586940a31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 18:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d0dd83b21099d8dbec93733b1b6b49d2 SHA-1: f9819471aac0bdbe14e4b8092cb4108c990f2436 SHA-256: 5290068586940a310eaa768181aab19a90d6dec51266f7a9e5949e62af9ad7a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a pattern of spearphishing attachment, where the document serves as a lure to initiate further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 https://phukienbep.net/media/files/82920949111.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17559238608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d3f9eb3cd---gofumatuxukevatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/19888034649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/46789006049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/girabasovejapiletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifap.it/images/file/58567837632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/86597812645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/77267858854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a55630f02---36799089393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wronba.pl/uploads/wysiwyg/file/94672975695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/ravoxelibozapivozatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/pupanajukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/bewivubafobefevafojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/ropimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhl-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/nirine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/kuduxazewupoputonafirumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/18586385168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614397e0a3eea---wivutepogatina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowik.pl/upload/86610749007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+who+viewed+my+post+on+instagramPDF 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_off0000b99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AE 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 25d6a0fee0b1352389b5eb77979dc40adb05255312e632c4c6990b96fb3767b4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF68 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 9ed962606bdf0e794bd0292ffd29ce98704890fb87e40dcccbdd4d6213be8da0