Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6ded95e95e8d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-10-11 16:23:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d9dc9d3ffed4999bd104f8c56da90e2e SHA-1: ad3e43102c53a29c3dbc6dc89882947882e041ba SHA-256: 5b6ded95e95e8d84c527bc4fc9fc5b43d19042a4addf9237ea12dda881c4475b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cnsgawefgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/ponaratinuteto.pdf
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/3719005177.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161569b740cede---madusedizavo.pdf
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/50841669992.pdf
    • https://www.informacion-indoorclub.com/boletines/img/file/93785901296.pdf
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/ripetexizamifevenojebewa.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ad6adeadb3---kejepumusamekuwa.pdf
    • http://klusjesindex.nl/images/uploads/90530013337.pdf
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20211003030843.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d1099a0fd---24225167797.pdf
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ca1c3b27eebd9ffcbc2caa85fdd1cc/7303586288.pdf
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/20007789362.pdf
    • http://lngpetro.com/userfiles/file/86108633809.pdf
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44631757715.pdf
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/7507879059.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bd6bb58fe---watadareporinalubagudug.pdf
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/65847379383.pdf
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/xutizagafupuj.pdf
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/benivopagudedadaza.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614929a043198---5753062750.pdf
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/37585083599.pdf
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/varal.pdf
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/42523793910.pdf
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/8881019263.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxeduzizupubo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/KGDyd8lM0uI/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+for+beautiful+places
    • 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_off0000f3dc.bin
da8dfc0b8330b5074b3bcb3da73f3d48a7f89a7ef1f2d69c982cc59f1788534a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DC 10924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0d.bin
0cfb041cbedbf7727b7724f47edd7d8bab2bd3d8ebcf7f289edeb091c63c4942
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0D 19972 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000140d8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D8 16792 bytes