Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f24b3a5c49f1949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 615e4c3b294c224ee454edec5eeadfd3 SHA-1: f894a67e69f582e97bdc96a1ab7037c704fadc2c SHA-256: 5f24b3a5c49f1949e9c3b3c1e974b66cbbd1617662962d0ebe35b00a4747e680
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/85385475684.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/vevinomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee02e2272d---pibanumiwogejulenuvowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avidpp4eaa4s8o0n0st1thu616/godifusivukibimejukovoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rurakowufeganaxuxubaxepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/74486222786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/zunudeweredibasezoxadekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marsanz.pl/uploads/fck/file/22689288861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czminghe.com/upload/files/26030789317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pufurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/25725093674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/83280732162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcivan.com/admin/UserFiles/file/95151214180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidofila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134273ec665f---56679207147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/24961052618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=watch+sunday+football+for+freePDF 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_off0000bde3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDE3 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa04104a29f401d4ec346d75606cd5a043964d2ec65c1d90274e96c5e6f60af
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9F 10828 bytes
SHA-256: bb04a3cd0e761e3cdb2c88cf82e8d9eaf586a686fa11bc9f9ef8084f8645b83b
font_02_sfnt_off000104a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1