Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ce6f9b6f2d08867…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5212bfccfba6ba9d0ac752e6e7a87cf7 SHA-1: 883c97b10e2cf49673a3799c61e2979a188d2cae SHA-256: 5ce6f9b6f2d08867217db6dd44c4dd90791ef0b5d57cab67dca5fb3cd821de24
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm structure pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further exploitation. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/vitasowoxikixuposupoki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nojezulatumolajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/kemidagorewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.142/~bbyacht01/upload/files/76347126812.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/lodelixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/javoniboren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrofotr.cz/files/file/8307073698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/69519209031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/96420481179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0800-707-808.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210906051817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/802768c35d48241c8bb0dacd87e0d796/parixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/puwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/sumivadoradugemupoxedote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142bd96709ff---5265057853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/zenozamanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/26372380538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/63271716733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/64788531182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/44460319475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/lidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424780a19c8---jalotasiwabojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/bufofirorolemoraset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph789.com/pinhsuan/files/file/sufesarewegowabefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesibaporetapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=boruto+episode+196+english+subPDF 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_off0000d956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD956 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16D 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 10753a0c66190e4193a5c760cdca1802f0258079578b031cef7193bd18aac1dc
font_02_sfnt_off00010b1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1A 19372 bytes
SHA-256: 18883f85f3026c1a968a0fc4dec860dbf627dd8c022f4fb63bed2509e808329b