Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575b14ef2b71b0d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a211ac6f669e05e93ca72659e776aede SHA-1: 7f43b99af210f27e5104bddda8bb1fdcd3a2414e SHA-256: 575b14ef2b71b0d5c7a1b79e654a3f7140be235abdff180dac6bc9306e8bf303
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a malicious link distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67455565512.pdf
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/68277215849.pdf
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/16825295884.pdf
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/niwegimezanoxawisarodo.pdf
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/81226224669.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/xazus.pdf
    • https://arranridingclub.com/fwd_docs/file/katazazu.pdf
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/20272049024.pdf
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp2prcg8p13mtc2ihpjkmr7in0/72251175317.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dcc3d52ce0---77280830778.pdf
    • https://marsanz.pl/uploads/fck/file/nonidib.pdf
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/wudewuzulabevemebuvekawe.pdf
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/jagalomelusawago.pdf
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/vafazerebewejira.pdf
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/14400194216.pdf
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210909200017.pdf
    • https://mcdelandes.ca/uploads/file/99954790066.pdf
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1cbc286f5---9842256982.pdf
    • https://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/8818121365.pdf
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/sisulomizonixo.pdf
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/31973480949.pdf
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokezaribuvidumonivemu.pdf
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/50581252914.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=6+letter+word+starting+with+ve
    • 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_off0000f83a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001104c.bin
47147f0996fabd9717609e17f32c688d99effa9c414110127cbecdb96b71e336
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1104C 19512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014242.bin
83fcacd1210e42421393438a05c41fed05240c0d17cdcddfacf6d55bd2096314
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14242 10748 bytes