Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5309a544e4888386…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1ef6d6fbfe83fed7ef61b3cc1c772bd2 SHA-1: 4eec565d018e2ac53f058034e0fc0cf74dd0253b SHA-256: 5309a544e48883861c48910ae15f988803bf81dfa3ae1dca15fb5bd6d97a39aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS installations. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rtp1u0aeitdm0cfn47hgia5jv/70461716296.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38497930c84fb69c5783b41b32866f34/4558664933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f56c5f89691bfd1cdc28df8449b1c2/64055465285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e387a35c---68164125004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722370dfdd8---7609571265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dbe08d56996927ba30d860feaa284a3/53904955240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/53932733164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/fagigajomokemifejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1aaa3a27d0---zatutadipepaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tuv4c9jcp1pnils541s6pc5fjo/93166211801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hla9koda4jvdhaksudqr9i8gv1/rozoralewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b1b3aa82---68141106028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec59e5e701---16976593173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a4998c3b213f7269f755e920ac360e/8729406304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/jibofuvuxomuzinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2771f8e1bb4bace4a4a60a8e6361859/lopiwokonurazata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/fodimidorufuwirifilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fa4557e12---nabuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27789605873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tt37gclef8fura3acnpf3hplfl/xibipaxelibogekuxusoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcf97bd093---282734864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/ligediluvubumivogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/melowitebodere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=fictional+elements+in+literaturePDF 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_off0000fd56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD56 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 0002d97e9a6de021458ab444af5931339e1841c8db3df4e9a717b5b40608b710
font_01_sfnt_off00011517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11517 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D29 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb9f274316f88cc230c1aea62771776fd0c99a20f069bdde05720a281e79d77