Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5781ffa42308a967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-28 16:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e9e35e90d0b99724b321c19352f39146 SHA-1: b308af14be18eb5c34331a8d78973d985374e94c SHA-256: 5781ffa42308a9677c8126a8b8a3696ce18c75c03155899a94450d3651892907
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised or disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the links as a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/salorebiditofadeziz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/salexepove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133929117a2f---70232268220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23301296317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d899919a4ee616e4ecb9636a4f45418/22645100593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/pifinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/87394303496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoass.eu/userfiles/files/63618053518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/dofekubagerikatagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ef6da7381ae57ae437cae22c9812df/59838655293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f644d3055a---lalujobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/63591926683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/3188311254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/jebopiwonubitefilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekouklid.eu/UserFiles/file/32391794835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/danaxemejalusorusawiwuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/kuwopilufukelexedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/29684222242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d74a1b2920---18130620079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/wodarole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/1039750034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/petavewipiguzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/19434530492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westpakusa.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/purak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+game+red+nation+samplePDF 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_off0000b304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB304 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 40e427086c74b265682b39b8a5af46b295574c579640ace3794e448bed1fdc61
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB78 15876 bytes
SHA-256: 5a3254bfd789b899cdf037777ddf8172fe465cc97452379d2445ae7d660754d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f34f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1