Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5679fed5e4cf00b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-05-30 06:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8f040be1971024bffbcadde6dcad368e SHA-1: d0c4ecdbb76a891bb04a2dfc579a75894c9eeb04 SHA-256: 5679fed5e4cf00b2ce60ca03046c352ff73e4748e714ce1d2518ebdc87993d3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'ultimate car driving simulator mod apk hack version download', suggesting a lure for potentially unwanted or malicious software. The numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, form a link farm designed to redirect users to download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/gavomukifirowob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/51072116868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1656847d06cc04cf8a25367875c9b0e6/wirugexadopinukibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/sabupupikebawaligik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff2450592f---kitodelagosepane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944468aa935---zezadurirelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/vamunodolazileligowevefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bismala3m32989jdgbb3vkorfh/dukadujopasepalel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c1f257b98---nilusakowuwizusaxamazezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca957073da---wefaxaxudolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ga47p4ckl73275hg96nnrjg355/43457711327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lmmes46dcsg2f6ltaac1ckrf4/71733287275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea56b42cc059a48cd0e0323101e5fcd9/boxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82d37e8eacce040529095120c35763d6/tuxojamoxanopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p09rm5475e12117qghs4ihbdou/belesuxomazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/gakexigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/busilelafujiwogexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ultimate+car+driving+simulator+mod+apk+hack+version+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f34cf51908---4688593033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e60e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60E 5576 bytes
SHA-256: e8eacb480122aa7a334af1a5a9a4a6f57ab3a707414be445d6a701dd0354be96
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E2 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 3b942fc828f18b716b5132a48a3c7a1020a7c8c40edfd040cf39388dc9a9e370
font_02_sfnt_off00011bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f