Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5defd88a222175cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:50:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e160918826f220249421f29ea1c62c51 SHA-1: 7c923e417519c903aa3f8a1e462f20413660a89e SHA-256: 5defd88a222175cff5ad454853c2b774f3661bea4282fe666cf3de4f481c9816
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and embedded links are consistent with a tactic to lure users to external malicious sites.

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 https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/13924684049.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d05113354---felobamulatate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcsiva.com/files/userfiles/file/45045143993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/sepuvijafubupexajisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/4961850142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/84006861663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/takojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/rexuxivobirokonunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61416973258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f81de91fb8---zajeguwowifesejilatabega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/joxexuriwezigavoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31602010868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zevurotumajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trip-sale.ru/userfiles/file/54890706212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/41681723996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96566417574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/99267323257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16955748776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/mazobifumipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/xifafavekedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614297d2b4d91---wawugodokomapatosewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/lawogugowasebivoruwakugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/31292505345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.patisserie-flechais.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazikidasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=android+vs+ios+for+gamingPDF 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_off0000ef2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2A 17808 bytes
SHA-256: db27d58424c778fa596c2e243d6ef2950eccb6076f98c2d14b362001bf723546
font_01_sfnt_off00011d1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13536 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 7522ccb78081d7e8e152d2085b56c69b453cb7e96f8a40dfb7e11934d301c377