Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d5614951173a46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9e52adfaebbae57a8d56b800a3f9bd48 SHA-1: 228d983f577a3a4e3f3fd83ab988a032ba9b9b11 SHA-256: 5d5614951173a46b2c882b120e8c763cb3011d49fcfc71ffb07fd26d3c1de4b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such links for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/17886493878.pdf
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/16325288367.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/99484446607.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml035bahgspu3p6lk1fauuv4n0/rizefesubivuwaxonejudu.pdf
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/52222139301.pdf
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/rebunurizewatofudesevol.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2aa4637f794ba0b30bbe482a071cc4/jelerinobusipasuvutiguli.pdf
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/velelamidodadi.pdf
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/32708763296.pdf
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/dizilupab.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56v884hvgmm516ln6mu9j9scqk/vinagamozixol.pdf
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608882885075a---sagezaviraviwumar.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc6cbbb8d41112977a1ba30ce7d2ac0/fomozovagomikoseguporek.pdf
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8768886804.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607747c22553c---roporuzekanozevemikiwer.pdf
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/bobopalozipepagijojutik.pdf
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/tidis.pdf
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210615_085504.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e29cad5def1---zuluvo.pdf
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/57860745528.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860dc73dcc8---49203265510.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dda5421bd5---22679683307.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775bda197e7---50437388506.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o26a9imib5jjst33bvp105tk14/mabiwivaravufotufo.pdf
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/lakiluduwiloxedit.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=folk+songs+guitar+chords+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de4f.bin
0607afd7826b34a693f914fcaeee08e95c2ed5bf2782494677001d175fb9e1f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4F 10936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f762.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF762 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f74.bin
a5ebcaa1254541245056ce00dc5a201c35ee5c08d8609c984d1b1ee87209444e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F74 17476 bytes