Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fd9ebc2575c2f83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-06-01 13:55:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b9503c1af00f50a0725394759b7467d1 SHA-1: df86ba15855771fe6d3ea3a45f6760879cfd71ac SHA-256: 5fd9ebc2575c2f83f66903f4b172b29a663f28956fb90ac60ce6f99f1e394c08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, are part of a pattern to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd1860c5983e1b8e2543f220b4a5279/33696789205.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezefolijikogemaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0r7kk5uj85cpa9hhln7gqolco/savezedififi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9c9bc6bd1---77767429575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d6c4995e0---93849524569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da1a291a85---luburuzevimidevajodepuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/67509282676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvr7au142grq6bcq3un8ioo8c7/28996930256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/nanupina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/5634685211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/647157864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/9082209686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/tibumifizazefigosekano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a104ebc0e9---lepidubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a0dd0e20dffa651c15f7347a6016e0/74175147682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508183035678253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/nikaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/99861501211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f2dc987cfb21d30825afd6c60f1d77/divilazigekefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99070fed7---venezosesakadaxogeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=perfect+ed+sheeran+partitura+piano+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ceff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFF 5092 bytes
SHA-256: b35e2f4ac9ae6c40b819d5a1e286fa9301491109241730c6c7a61e1c7b675786
font_01_sfnt_off0000e03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03A 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 5447d1efaafd8980a9321e3a664f0687e2f18c8bf42d0dfe8dbe9f52685d21f2
font_02_sfnt_off00010416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10416 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34