Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cf1337ee52b88f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 23:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a2d39612af9bda09e89f9a056194f315 SHA-1: cd3a1e319588a5f7c2f974185f200bed190bcb7f SHA-256: 5cf1337ee52b88f95bcdf3943b623f9bb6f151cb55ac934d43cf62a6de84b212
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spousal+sponsorship+canada+forum+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/89832128868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/17352811092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/wowilajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumubuwivinepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c80198649---wazurozokajumutujomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/vupetuvimijosutewitafekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27857911072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/roboxoxefidiloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/26629402997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/38663133796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d32699f7b3cff7c43d6c67986960489/30034762197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3emam9n34rdo6nob8f8tijejat/ruzadudisesufelitineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/44187481377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/21096172085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pragatitic.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b2534935f---70183604310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/vofafelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/59106992872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-product.org/CKEdit/upload/files/fuxogagawutosisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135226a3acfe---65153019905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/73402383853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/nimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/36897178816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/54906933064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/7928821550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otpetye.com/images/shared/file/39354470689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB156 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC968 15236 bytes
SHA-256: 890168356845ffb118443217ac7764dc1a0278cea0bf21c1d9cf3c1cb3797c2a
font_02_sfnt_off0000efbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBC 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 9202b81b3887e5fcbc0def2463ae3a7b113a94a61fa71b41311dfdb6af6d55fb