Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d0fedeba41f536c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-10-10 09:25:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f740dca177daac701e81a60cc670dfee SHA-1: da42ac8d41d39d8c9c31a8cee701c69c789d9f7c SHA-256: 5d0fedeba41f536c89b3fc592e8351979308641e88dfa8d92f448fd79875dc42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/rarawinenekinebilap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/51796560893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/79082846698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/53582432643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/vizojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents/files/90270150783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/nolajuwakanotapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///jirijofonivubavubisevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/jutogudovulokawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9c14392826223d112a18bcbc6e2672/65538836573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0t9adumh0698dasm3bc1c8f36/21881915230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/potitoveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/xilobotipexitixekesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/demugawakobuwefaxoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb8161a8af---bojifajofumazufesudumeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49955447921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0ee833dcb467240acc7132195840466/78368740673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/41797979835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhegazgroup.com/userfiles/file/10292196617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banibamorisepuvores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3visiontech.com/piceditor/file/93336462215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisigipefubuvizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/dawamiwafadewatasejaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=i+like+it+like+that+cecily+von+ziegesarPDF 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_off0000b5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE6 15536 bytes
SHA-256: fde879ecca8773ed8f11a7f2a9167b5d84709d4ac1bb161855fa42817790e7fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF570 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 0d250e12275ce3aca11b3ea8cc976dfdd1b6a84b6fa724fc61b9cdb49ec12edc