Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5921b6ac08cdb6da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ba769fd7c9520f1dbf9a54dabc5f9251 SHA-1: 561b3d350783342faba3f71f62165fa5f1240a44 SHA-256: 5921b6ac08cdb6da7dca2407453256ccd0a7e5d277ae5b795413e0d224df4ede
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/68305585955.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjvgcj2c8867e571r3as7q2r0a/19417813105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/26479738931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69465847197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vgt6nbh7j04ocidjdtikluuu5/21450437103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/vusemalinovadubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpus.bg/files/fck/file/wetazabewatewizitufotamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210910_220359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/02165543987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/14830601615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/mefonafimivizepusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/95678849115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39674234291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/88768861382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43429732595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/31770861570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58445236151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/21330868370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datcat.vn/2018/file/winixukudozanuwutilalaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/lobamozegutogumavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ae006e10a---rovuliwizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urj2c2iefntico7h0cri2gvs9i/63372589004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexetizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bar+graph+pptPDF 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_off0000dac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC1 9920 bytes
SHA-256: f9f142949be29a1375b049dc3b55719a97be2e542958f75035f3f4f0173aad16
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C0 17416 bytes
SHA-256: c4990045d9c320d8729f08196741621403b6b7e5185c915b5a44347db4185892
font_02_sfnt_off00011e13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1