Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5399f070a42ec9fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:21:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6cfbf458642ff74a460a05cd7335fa62 SHA-1: 9470779ec4721f03f521c2a05eab4584f262deb1 SHA-256: 5399f070a42ec9fbb74b03bc114c25e43c134a90fcf7c14f58af0715e87ececd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a focus on using SEO techniques to obscure malicious links within a large number of seemingly unrelated domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/40306258769.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/22591128099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69872bd7438b1bc9687aaf007f63fa99/89179372563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/guwugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/21896420192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d220278b1---jusibafubero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/42496262266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/dorisapamerif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/23851785018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/busuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870d5310f85---zurerekitetikemetokube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbfc49e422b---basalezisazudigiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d93d27dc5---10318540156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/tilejevifarofekaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ac8ad0f4b---xudavatejido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c661442b946---jawidapuvofonife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master-service.ro/images/file/bagazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/sarobolixifetele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/wajifero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/81055462552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c797dbd65a2070a7e850e1c02ee86abb/39953057705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64ddb0bb72---96242100828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c990ea933db---35435351146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c903ae3e2da---taxivaweduzakegagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+environmental+sanitation+in+nigeria+pdfPDF 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_off0000f30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30C 11012 bytes
SHA-256: d93b65e78c641c27f425a06398930bbdd0d7ea166ad5a001875aa2d2b0f0ca11
font_01_sfnt_off00010c77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12489 19696 bytes
SHA-256: 368297cd250625719b748cba218ecdfaa5aafb5d35fcd593f56b284cb4a141be