Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dbd832f44f1b54a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1d9a6d447462e4404397329b484367d2 SHA-1: f020ee9b3c1bc0e266c0f8a281c7fd6f74937abd SHA-256: 5dbd832f44f1b54a281b705da717c65e023a9c28494829d78b34a0ed6015260c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, forming a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection as a phishing trojan indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/37108105904.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393403aa45e---49851555456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/39995274625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329d7321836---39425411294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021090223095365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/sakidomomuzuzanuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagelovokerupavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/17342538447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/435478363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613955335771a---pafagituronujazosexepupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38219053173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81404762427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/kobiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianbelieversmatrimony.com/web/christiansbelieversmatrimony/photos/ckeditor/files/92924976168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/jajulerutixexevimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/lubavareteviwaxisigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/bamakojoxinowogikasusazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/35780762740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha2upiltqi752v8fqvc3b6dp6d/68541214295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98636551506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210907005719028091peps9x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/joliribugamexutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/29157263944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marugame.hk/editor_upload/file/nozazufuzipufamineget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/dusibibotizunisurexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_E26A4876F5A890CC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+gta+5+in+phonePDF 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_off0000db43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB43 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 7e74b0001c6f129a9ddeadb2d51ba331d77abb219dcd227a20492b1b1f3c79f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB8 17444 bytes
SHA-256: ecf99962c432ddb8ddc2d694d094c5df69a858d1e8c93c3ea5ba0080243e082f