Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f1ddd3b5e304863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e8cd9229f7e0a6ed106041443ec876d6 SHA-1: f70bf53edcbc32e6dbfac2dbbe3fb7cdf252d1b3 SHA-256: 5f1ddd3b5e3048638ac99a3e45d2d5d6d7023f8abb6d527bfe995ca630c078ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the phishing detection indicate an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/xidofazebozej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/38932243112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c17b7be225e8a65e95f086e9268b13b/tonopuxakinapuxukuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/53583053648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/wuzuvolafiwinusoxoxokepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b67020a39---puxoxakegagalivoborotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703c2945c069eda1b20047516dffd6d0/67583109367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c4b2a67f3ebf23fdb241117aa63b0d/35597114108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/wuzano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/47036351610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/98130240303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8a5aa059f---75098479022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d6396d73f---fotusasajigerojikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/85173963991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/21279604579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f655853116---13499991026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/23987070388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c016ac9bcf3---73628819563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_53EECBA17551030B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/74398826477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majubesar.net/contents/files/vojidonumawivavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/43741756784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/53878331558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ford+focus+2012+sel+manualPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/vetasajodapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000109ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AB 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 97fa95ff4cae2fea0f3e454cd889a493a227aa69a8923ae324168731530eed07
font_01_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 977287581131a68ef907a915aac05f51432850d0306c059b3652e288d0f018d2
font_02_sfnt_off0001549a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1549A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1