Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5457f206a1a21a15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d6d54bf9c8d19e8015402e8a87f4fd44 SHA-1: c15bf9882031d3e1f42ed9821ca3ac8d68530adf SHA-256: 5457f206a1a21a1549be09e79f998b1561831fef5002107ebe198d2bb823ef27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead the user away from the document to a potentially harmful site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9773

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 http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_77C6DE8715F48574.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08b77a9085---58243964139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3o7s2ht9qq5shal3rbl2kcvo5/48165296649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/buvorugunapefopelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/newizozefalusonuwoxigufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/videsalaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071624b31802---sezozipiwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72805757611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/mofiparuwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepawutuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9152d29c6c---64904280827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608042c8d6cdd---gijisonigibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/dukisexiwobalimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/4574861645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/xaxidaxigete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/75063691807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/puzalafasimubojopogume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/guwogunikemexuvewinetaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/6822480689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5195b1b17768f3bbef3fefbd533a429/kobuxoxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mthhememjvsbvda7ngmikespi5/wurexesidutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e98ce77ac---nesigizamukejedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/98260976331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/girisijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f29cfb48948---74204137268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/90224397195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/81890220393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=literary+elements+in+the+lotteryPDF 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_off00012d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D85 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 9768c02fad037556179410e6fed003e3297a5e78774c608bda447d742443c11e
font_01_sfnt_off000159c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159C4 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 23d70b95a104c1b26a42d1c542179e7dd94208d4f44cad3e7193370f00c7c414
font_02_sfnt_off00017147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17147 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1