Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b9c237182b59420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2029e4f9d9cb223b323786c08bdff558 SHA-1: a31474578ed6c14a1a7169f0154c789e7e9e78f1 SHA-256: 5b9c237182b5942001c2b409dee06079d5c617c9b88ad632c285794dd00b0d95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are flagged as potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9881

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://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/78127966704.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210522044210381109525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/77062213421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1969446607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/begomefutidegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/68600996985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/nubafotinawadowalanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/4439471874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shshalloffame.com/clients/9/93/936f23dc4abb03f6d4a1aae2c8a32781/File/7702683868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/xolimatikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8beeac7c2e8d27bf3fb1edd5bdb2bbfe/36409756434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f270bf444755dfc8fc1a2541e94d652d/noxabozomupaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/zemukodunapitesavuwitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/49704057795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///18681609269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedakugojaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/ralalemeretasabefesame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733b8ed5d4c---52800856892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e8e861368---xizidudiwefodeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/juxasimamepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeeef75d194---kinobabovilodisovupegapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9n2gcn4gq52a66va69cggjcbk/lepemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/78131660735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/97801664675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tageedesign.com/ssmpt/documents/file/42243713738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/dajexeraduzosozagokerofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sap+bpc+450+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00013958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13958 19744 bytes
SHA-256: 59f914245fa3ebeaaf9d4843130622ffececc948aa6afd8346340f46b7a20deb
font_01_sfnt_off00016d5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D5E 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 2f03f7dcafcf4710350bcafe367b9253e364984f3f367f7259aa63a2e7f4a814
font_02_sfnt_off00018694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18694 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1