Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f7f2ca369c54509…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2ec92438de5f7daad2dbad189eba6eb3 SHA-1: 99f34f8d66f294b427047653dfb6ca5d5c05c3c2 SHA-256: 5f7f2ca369c54509b6433f5ef9e7cce81d8d39f8b7d1139ded1dd5922ebbeb9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/muvapadi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109081644082542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d2646c185---68536213431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pupigodupesodina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e652db84b---riwofotiforodizifixobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/94936136372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thediamangroup.com/_images/files/buwiwiluvituzevaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/73961545934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/74169376487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/37232421369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/dusewogutikopidaleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f18cb1bbce---56888394198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/linowunozite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranopobefonazoxivamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/15264428212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c89137ca26e0d276cb6885070482d6/kanemoxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/98218879201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/30820954984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/detifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e0498d1fe7483f2c5b8e0c20d33539f/dopudalaromomakomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e13f3dd4ae103824e623446afe0128ee/22298497561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/fixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/tifowavixamidujobuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+download+latest+version+2020PDF 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_off0000d3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BD 17020 bytes
SHA-256: d055a818e7d73708fb6c1a90df4c8da80da604d0b092f7f071cef4850880e633
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEF 10752 bytes
SHA-256: f3279e00146502911a62dc79619a3d08d19d309ba9dd92c4db143e2d7c556a17
font_02_sfnt_off000118f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1