Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d1683b2bbbbbb36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:44:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 86166316798dd07a71ac8f056e286de6 SHA-1: bc3be094b740687c1beea677f6accf8e78ffa9de SHA-256: 5d1683b2bbbbbb36926b3dc114173bb2d220016c89ed2252e83d874cfaf76485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised Content Management System (CMS) upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and link distribution pattern are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/72203466997.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/81313523435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c660eab60---65838047913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72293973810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d7baf7b4---tanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/sufivarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/15449059439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6880cf154---70516663373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/98443398759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8b0d6f959---32559461265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/39801599949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/53662673488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f76ba36f7a---zivenogedawijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/11020441231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01238152a4---feritaferugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b112b045372---goxivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinohair.com/upload/files/75252664372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f71e59645---61976563794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/20097425411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/vefobogawovikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/80827127671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1bacd82f00b328294db755c681888fa/xosafopifaparozojobokogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/kubimaguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nintendo+3ds+master+key+without+callingPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC0 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 60a636f3b15059cb1a99669c889eef178409675b3428b0d17cdd616ee552e5e3
font_01_sfnt_off000129ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AC 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 193af4d1011a44ef0b68ae5b5eb5f26681912dea1dade5de8249c587f4324fb8
font_02_sfnt_off00014654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14654 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E6B 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 6d440ce6ad7dd399ad4ec4d110adf85eaf670418a6b2b82bfcbf9e655e900a18