Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b54fde0dd5c68055…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 233e703e909c068cbd6bf91f45dfdc9a SHA-1: 833af006274a96054be02720ab4ef7d2acaffd5e SHA-256: b54fde0dd5c680553c00969e0aa272b1f1c712abbfa3f3ad1947f38d6c9f8428
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://pinxedien.net/upload/files/sisiromumagudepek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_EF6321F504CD6731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/rikubositopolevesezewesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/kezoxuwemeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77a271a961---xozipanixani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/fapaxomagapidoxaxunavuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/12474626220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/pifumesekowidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3be44b827e---28509965894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giditufofasone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/53153395753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/dopuxakifedamimolanubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa1b2be821a400120f8f250e8a2e9c2/wejepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/dalisasidoluvubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86e423c47f---jijifujixovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/mibetusababikuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/noxosigogezatasoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72f097ad32624214556e5b0c97cea9b/28784969718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/41608534554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10248763853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f111c45706---bojakavolupojotajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6vk47cle375lre0hvb14ae9u7/9919897506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/20083015654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/30373418546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1629885187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=superintelligence+paths+dangers+strategies+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00012d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8F 11160 bytes
SHA-256: b896de7fac48965e837a7c7cb11bd5d28449fd6547352120f17b7ee564576127
font_01_sfnt_off0001476b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1476B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015f7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F7D 19388 bytes
SHA-256: 431492e17bdac6c3e06e60644a2190d67185b0e598bf8aab81da32cb18f09d69