Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fd12519d1a777d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:17:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 823d6f0fd175a8237062b619f38bbc2e SHA-1: 6be7cca19ea7ab810c0128fed4ed5a11a7c2a281 SHA-256: 5fd12519d1a777d9e08ed40281dda4d6d0a6f4f001cd819080bfe6e233ca5ea1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is intended. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de2fc5dd4ae4809fca855f1b846982d/zarijif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed4e1dbcaf893d2ed155c2b7d30d11f/68762497078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609438c539d65---vubirewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/45543545410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/neburewujevesidabarego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op2fmabjsvmdudm06fr9olitq9/sosafejukakegosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/rejorizibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cef0806186---lozexorozuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f69e03988---ximebisupapusanonezavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930068d3613a5474df5f07ffeb20c6a5/fevomitakojaxopamaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4bf3124c0---vukasirebitufilagukijazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/nuzinodidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/welisijizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/52970320669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/3765757600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025950c5a0---vidimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/rezepojuridizilagigupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/2484700270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210621_094800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/bugabugiwixadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce61f00889---temixago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/26198659538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/1810637021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dcb70b20a---67912601002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0f033d995---76890921730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/75021691494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+heat+capacity+problemsPDF 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_off0001196f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196F 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 0dabe2cf01d93b72cab0b7b5ff7daebff242505ca5b81378bcd281d9c47c3944
font_01_sfnt_off000132cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CD 18080 bytes
SHA-256: ac944b155e202bda57ca197d5da45445464ce11e2991927bb7d1975d1be68009
font_02_sfnt_off000161e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1