Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d0f43fe2e750af1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 73c5eaa6621db240900c3a976a73c821 SHA-1: 6d8665a8fb41485035ff00ffcf5742cc8f3874df SHA-256: 5d0f43fe2e750af1ceccb51cf3ba471d9a6949b9556a6debaedf615e46a3789b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, with several heuristics indicating a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/negewagitabunobuziwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59823447065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/97849043333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cd05e6063c---wafazoronovonumokasofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a5c32912e---69670772265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2avsts61fk46ggrc378q7p131/melipezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/35553987011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/wiwowefabadirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/6439796943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/ladaboranof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/xifuvudunomefulinigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/wexojuviwolejaruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/67559265098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98349653824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/taram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k7q8fr12mg93lm75rvo8tk05t/baputud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/29763011411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/81380965426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c06c2efb096058b3fd2ce3bb734cd026/roduwopilewalejejuvogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/263eoh500u1tvmloub5ts8phca/bamodili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/47688583853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=excise+duty+indirect+taxPDF 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_off0000d971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD971 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF188 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 94b9ef831d7ef77efadddfa94b1ac23e82ccfbda4017540a4f6df89c6d07b31f
font_02_sfnt_off00010992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10992 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 747d29436b91adb37d657fcf1978764baf575b955e19a3d94576fdf4b2960671

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