Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5877d38455b26717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3005973db9a1e29df963dc4bf492838a SHA-1: 828a448e61b9f447019c7d441f3df5468fccb8a3 SHA-256: 5877d38455b2671770600933e1b0046b4b36099bbbc5c5df4392a1404fc46ace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links, including those on disposable hosting and utilizing UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially distribute phishing content or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://holzweiss.at/10702879919.pdf
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/27861055857.pdf
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/gijanizipoduwisuv.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n1sgod9s4fvihqtt5fdsinoil/81924968182.pdf
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/74512202040.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/14413670778.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acded00ea83dad4522b64c63cd2106dd/wamawefuvuvok.pdf
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/65748794836.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd743536da---60330170644.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1e3d36202---76263296112.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnd59l13h36bqaqd2eaalpv48n/89685341832.pdf
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/839c90b532fc0c813ebff38226b9e358/98332130186.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4750ca47cb6bc306e3d045d7ea1b9d15/889856800.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/depinimawidu.pdf
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/68793420680.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081354a276f9---88803104387.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9jllmhepti0coa6srl4aiq1qo/33828460685.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dffa354b899dfd2191af895a8550df1/kaxajimugexipija.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bk1vqtdsu90p214akgj7nbgqe0/74665125232.pdf
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/lexowu.pdf
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ba8544a71a7588f1fa9c2007f57411/87861107308.pdf
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/buginaladujofumeneze.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07428b1db089ed7c07191fec069180a2/jofafixeseredirosavixim.pdf
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/54626902380.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=impact+of+competition+on+business+pdf
    • 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_off0000c823.bin
36f328c567c5a1d3ac8648b864ab448621d3f56cec1f5ff443999cd8ebffaa08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC823 10824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0dc.bin
fe219717dc5aa145dcaa938b6f0cb909e4912c012d40de9ae533d2a31ce17ca9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DC 16308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB4 16792 bytes