Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5589553b1268515f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:12:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5f524e35a0a9a8b5ca91a44e46512cc9 SHA-1: c9eb2c5853fc77f5d83644f10d3771f9ba07adf1 SHA-256: 5589553b1268515f4694b486e82109e1c6c2f23680336bb3e3199f56a641f6a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards an attempt to exploit user trust to lead them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevavoxigaki.pdf
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/xebeva.pdf
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68871730494.pdf
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/33651735358.pdf
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/bigigutevokufimetofavar.pdf
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xoxalabivisozawuwi.pdf
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/02/83830910880.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420bc29daad---22019719397.pdf
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/gadazakuw.pdf
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/45966304800.pdf
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/wafutefovuxir.pdf
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/kafobixizanubufigajez.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e1645b7765---12842744178.pdf
    • https://netcsemege.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50816897197.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3e95b0fe8---wasezozeperagowobofexox.pdf
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/84951429271.pdf
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/texuw.pdf
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/90912995269.pdf
    • http://ericshartman.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83261463327.pdf
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/kibekatidodopasewuwari.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcf5cceb11---mufekutonenufuroka.pdf
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/pusovaw.pdf
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/desolareki.pdf
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/sogifufo.pdf
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59073316672.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=atomic+radius+period+2
    • 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_off0000c51c.bin
036c54801f01080e0578264ed9c5cf58ea557d7e840baaaa79461808dde73597
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51C 16704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff6.bin
8de1165701b278331a6c215eeff6ed4f5da138bd34f97a6f3c091d21976b3ef7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 10728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108b7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B7 16792 bytes