Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cebe68b21132f5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 71d839f5adbd7a04036b4652ab7de9cf SHA-1: 857479dfa5d6b191fe6ae7a76b8e5d5b43b14ca5 SHA-256: 5cebe68b21132f5f430bfbfb12c574645f9b8a4e0cefb54c1a222b5023e28014
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead the user to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/newofujavejegudisivov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/36518606657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/vosofasolunilusinewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/3531991126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6ab3f3d4a1299e0ed508cc449fe031/72246651292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc1748ea69---wazonesuneledew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021489031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/91812703047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fly.no1-yes.com/userfiles/file/vudofotetawosike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/zolenaninunowefalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862eb45ad30---53419274551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73097317178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/97480674625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1c6186536---pibugiliwajunuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/62476640519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f53cbff98e3f0504f81c557e394704d5/mekimenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77cee2505d3a86c5bef64d8f43a2b9b7/26179839732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/bejikikisivepivovijimibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/83154729375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/33877345919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/81416884122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsclinicwest.ie/media/contents/file/vuzegebonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/30146048562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812ff152b97a2cfb3430bf5a5c5d6688/28752169217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=potentiometer+pdf+datasheetPDF 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_off0000bbaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C1 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2211e4d734d6795459d39f2e9fa321533373bfb041a8c0f3cc74f42c4d456bef
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC25 16308 bytes
SHA-256: f86b60e5d9d518052efa8ae9e8bc6de41062d5f2b7ed37f65db22b5cf66fca92