Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5949c38e90f18fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5f2f1a56b9a6369d6adb3af4dcb8d802 SHA-1: e07dda0336ee7d1bb4a8fd7cdf375b42699114ba SHA-256: 5949c38e90f18fc8457a0971d200908128a5b9e807588ec45e69e8f2e5819676
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or facilitate SEO manipulation. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=will+metformin+help+with+weight+loss
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/zumiforawejalip.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9bccb10d82---davogiton.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d0d7c4276---80631371736.pdf
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/24150994763.pdf
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/kolarizasikobuzeman.pdf
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/8009049838.pdf
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/87821382660.pdf
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/8731813115.pdf
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/65706942985.pdf
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/gagidusatuw.pdf
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51faoopbkptjbkid8fgudp4gst/tikukovab.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5m8njb6k753i7v59gdqhqmct4/4258168787.pdf
    • http://utopiasacramento.org/clients/0/07/071cdeedc048305be324eb10ab8031d4/File/28533027439.pdf
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/tivafuvosifiwuxuridote.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447e54967f---pidosowutakaguzep.pdf
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/tozulefizetoba.pdf
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88704866443.pdf
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/69515869570.pdf
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/xodosutufemig.pdf
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotekuwupejufokar.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a15c5b28cd---zusukiforudipobuwexegek.pdf
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomiwow.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25c7e9ce70---diwepirufora.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/78517478691.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_off0000fe19.bin
d521020c1b5c515cf0c2b2fd7765a081e8e59e4bf4a606602d88f4dd8a7ed39d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE19 10720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001168a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9c.bin
bab5f94b7565cab818ca42bef42a983d3bcbf4578b55a31417d3604ba11a75b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9C 17568 bytes