Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d3149a4310e9bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cad3323dd6d95d165e6b050bb8dda280 SHA-1: 8072faf1305ac9da41a3fe1b5f5d40a71b2a10e7 SHA-256: 5d3149a4310e9bb6f5336f07d27fcdebad85c74513bcb93194456378744efcec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a significant number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate a link farm intended to direct users to external content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/savupubujaturimijowitava.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f881abc015---burepufifizuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2d44b32c7---tonazekiwuvijonedoviperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/xupusaluxakololos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petswithlove.com/cvsprojects/SSK/Source/2.0.0/images/files/xolokajelutarobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/219812892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/jijotosezonipanezozigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/91945643093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/79489718372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/40816051943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/tiligupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/79056102723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364b442e59f---vozobizegonurexisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/7456154531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/59335936471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/fulezonirobizubebenela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6801304772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/lepizelakunabopusonifepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugafenarubirodavisilola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/44211495688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_C8D993E71B11FEEE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/kefizaxinixumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=krunker+online+hackPDF 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_off0000c9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D6 17088 bytes
SHA-256: ed8678de8f7d40abc723762aa97c0a8a56e04a2edda927ebd1fd8998ffec341b
font_02_sfnt_off00010e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E48 10244 bytes
SHA-256: ae4948158977b2a9b78039e93156750798d8e5c3d21c1e4e363600ce826056f5