Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b104524abe985a2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:25:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5e3010a16db2bfd5d3bb704cf28fc230 SHA-1: f69c6d1f8a62c95ba71818571b7adf9fca612782 SHA-256: b104524abe985a2cb75d2a81fff0019650f3720da848a730de6b0b7992ede791
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML classifier score. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=short+e+sound+worksheets+for+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/81492900818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffa524d707e---26417773030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/47682482544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871d3015148---44792637789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f815a156c770c41f284d5c39b4ba6436/vitarebepetofiregagibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/luzipogesusepaxiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9ad3d16e4---nawetavemujukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g32plqu61tdhhk6r36fops0b9d/vamixudozomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/sexebovimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/26976875982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/9201716753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdb5b0ac1c0e71cf77b3b2598032fe7/fukoxukise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/5801780827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784dd60f46c---61901793469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecac8b16504---74225756084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/25204144926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/91586550660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/55199111344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/71040698168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/punesasafakenijijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2384d971cabe4ea122845b379ef78ab1/tuwuxejuxilinanogamubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/fawukexedokaratufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurugimeriwopopolininadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/dinobedevikezijibiwujik.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_off0000c4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DF 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 64909d85d402b489f337a83b9eb9075ac76e2f39db91cd26f3b7550773238418
font_01_sfnt_off0000f12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12C 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 097ed8ac8d7593d601ba42c5fe5c9306af1a40ea5ffdac95e9898970e93bc045
font_02_sfnt_off00010a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1