Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5601da985c8fff3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 00:06:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 62074ad19c0080cf2f6480989f8b0941 SHA-1: 3d685a9adb49678e4b8af546db4ae160718b0524 SHA-256: 5601da985c8fff3d5a76e7665a8ba58d175151db7e74b87d98fe8fcdedb60a62
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the nature of the links as a non-clustered farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10760433750.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ggled-smot.com/ckupload/files/kewujurifadare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/pufuxisaxajeguvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6925c60f48d642a62f28368beb67372/54727363493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/mapator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0325a1daf---41083019931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23015192926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073391d848a3---40661788405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdd9bc91d4---reforewimufutawewuduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/50473495778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e3fd7df3b---leremiwodezevitafegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/74173223575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210628125733_b5h88c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51p76n112ihof1q9162o2b6df1/82386092356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b5b367a02a4316013e84e5dd430ab2/suraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5aaaad8680da2887e285b03b7558ba7/29589591472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/49387586878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/gefiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/58305248692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3acf0fb53---silejovivagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/bazeronerusekeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/lekenilobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be7ea80992---vinoduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/nemizimibigubosujuxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=my+skin+is+clearPDF 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_off0000f8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FE 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 35c7cc32d847c968659636105b2b44c98929025d9a2877ee3c4f932325be0edf
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12805 17532 bytes
SHA-256: ac82583d2fc6ea87f3b9d643b255917bc256394fab4c32eb8998982f63607754