Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5761b0d1f7aa4964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 04:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2bf57858c5c40f3214daed545ab94c9f SHA-1: 514bc2117b2b67942f77b47cb43073b26cc529d2 SHA-256: 5761b0d1f7aa4964f91eed2993bccef9a45d0bca591073a07f284ba9bd1a3232
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to disposable hosting and compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=joey+season+2+streaming PDF link annotation
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f96bd03a7---najij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/fagaboxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/suwiwemulidodakudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72090582205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/34902531001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331a438cc842a41e7829bc080e405cb0/luvijijeferivulotuladis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/durifujirurutipazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/kebaxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b7d0ad984f---63687476678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/11849272040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanespresso.com/espresso_ckfinder/userfiles/files/82633551766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b8c7d051cc---53755349039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitygums.com/userfiles/file/xubifegojaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/dozamojakinepikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazutuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/61438163358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/36847775875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147f21c6e062---fojuwevigepuzozivavifelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tw-itemaos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saginowufiparekobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614980b702ce1---rafetikawozitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/75491868623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/98204889144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9ce898b7d---talalanadafevatezero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.niengiamdoanhnghiep.vn/img_duhoc/files/73911187577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syria-report.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93186163487.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://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_off0000c8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B6 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 32ba89582a8be6a9207f18f88d47a9b13b0b36c8f97484e9fa1b815b7b9f77ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF942 16868 bytes
SHA-256: fd9a9d756fe16951faa32d17673ab3f81d0bc2fa1a82f75ce910c939b003bf5d