Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f3e31ce33fa4952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b7a794e2d3bfd54e11d57f152fa6d734 SHA-1: d6019c1c3f50f3234b6b23239a01cf312ecd67db SHA-256: 5f3e31ce33fa4952f9752ee28f94d31d6f6d203033a4ed60dab477e769f2f6d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://millecolori.it/images/file/81426739789.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/64502031780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51b968c7a5328d7334470b5ddf14ea20/1349264245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/61298285129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161268ccfaa30b---zisoxunimifojitumepepijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/3383280472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ea39a678f57042613b49c5cbb21ed3/kegarules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/11359793066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b01bc60391---viradixajokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee862fb2ddf---zunebezowofetiberajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/36376092769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2k957edoi6t44olu65gqbr0g9b/riwusokexaxivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1352912084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htskv9ev31s5q5pacm0lc1a59g/22198325693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/35040873938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0562cd23a2472523f4d265d481f2d69e/vobomijexetagoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e134fb9cb4489449d064fb5ab6f75181/83015560894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49edc654111bed6c57b32331402f8516/276210630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070371ccab64---88808968818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/18627318800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3180207136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mazameen+e+sir+syed+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ca337398290ed0d223056d52251b9b/besifega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabf0dc38c8239594fb896ec526cd799/82452735814.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_off0000bf90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A2 19368 bytes
SHA-256: 8f9a5d5cbe30cbc293311bc61fb176bff0c32a8163ae9d4b98aa13af70456a45
font_02_sfnt_off000109ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109ED 10560 bytes
SHA-256: d9dfd923bc1682d36c4cb1c464a6f4ba179bbee50d8134f769ecff6579f24354