Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5906d43bfbae8c06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 18:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b1f7fd5b68435ef9b3f80ac53130ea0d SHA-1: d339b585b3b433b0891476c07fa9d8b01872e856 SHA-256: 5906d43bfbae8c0628b89dbfe5474c2e80680e681bdc77ad77349912b633fa4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are likely compromised or disposable, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

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 https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/kerafafina.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/wofelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e4e7555972d07e602e327b65dd6235/17426169392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwest1980.com/clients/9/9b/9b13e9c1eb96aaf026ead536bb80a376/File/kusilafopalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/63456728822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070bf1fd2a811e4e27a8cd3a34e94010/64293560420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16101428de74f5---42220878350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210801072744308099fl1yer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f424966ebef1a8143bb83103e90525/73651041705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zagigorimiradufazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/vaxemutimuliwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/2105119494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3886fbc77e---monomomezelawabifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/rovisumaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhhth8i4j98ld8361rli21jp85/9362934432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu1g9q2c3cmb7mgal3nipvie18/54170552228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh3vabhrgo7vsl2poed6a22t1n/kiwuronuzadiworolexipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn5c0roug4s01cq8e9am3srt7u/lupopipadubuzawuzuxefato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bb979d58ebbbe261c07cdef3e8826b8/23217496360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/bebekupesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q3sb8id2jiklnkehnlki70fkn/xamadiziviposofiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5126a91b69667c155804ca0daf4b38d2/nalesimukunewaduvuboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsmctpoleeptl56m9o7nl6dr08/kapukedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=southern+water+and+sewerPDF 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_off0000f615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF615 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2C 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 5feb852d04742c36db4def5e3224755e4c458165da40b2a7dcc8d59dac10a4e2
font_02_sfnt_off000125fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FB 18612 bytes
SHA-256: f44144616979fa84082a2ebcabdde001b82951dd0854c21fa6ba577660bd4fdf