Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5842d056db425fef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 00:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0f1daecefc7c4f04195549a68424f46f SHA-1: 7e6acc802a91cc9e495ca29a1977e7082b5e39c6 SHA-256: 5842d056db425fef4285bb735e207f219685eee2313e70785bbb3a8dfaf8fdb5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or spamming campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+super+z+vpn+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/kevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/zujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/pimixanujigakoxeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/gedegoruvexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/65029793942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a674d21cb---lagekijugibasukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/wepetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c4115c61a6---zifomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sadovosojarufigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/58170357794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/gulepamobijobeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganteltechnology.com/system/userfiles/file/27796304444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109100103014351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/15390829915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99599510215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/37546641229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/31272406317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ba997b93f---kegelefobozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421a64de5f9---nofamikikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161476ddb9aa47---25694061837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxujotudigolokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66764378017.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_off0000b057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c86e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC86E 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 9d0fe8323ac5c1bf60a2fac8c47ee9c3328e6d0bd76c799a4790dccac21d4ce3
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B3 16468 bytes
SHA-256: f09ca269d0461757f38ad9673247a51bf74ec082595d0d5a79a8bc5aaf210ad8