Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5f93cd8adc123ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aa309b9ad5e7d57410a0ee73e97d21cf SHA-1: a1819a31ff69a724835d6010ad3030370b2808c1 SHA-256: c5f93cd8adc123ffa3db10decfdaaae9e065f99961d7ccaa91423f5c9cd6f6ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection by security tools strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210910121146.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/dotofoxotuvutifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvasofemibedoroximenela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogirititebilapuxuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/jefebavisoziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuroxefexujavaxemofevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/75514271331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixenekibijedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/xumonimibunorubewaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/97938369716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvitogujaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b699daa3c6e6e1355eb0a27728e17b34/zevolido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210911_005328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/navupebotizofononawimase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/99617485800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e81051df2---18532570162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe08060b8efe52ed06b77ac748c48bf/dakojavitepegobifulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd17c7704a---tarakegijoweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbp.hastatis.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/74665135761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/18968097624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/39189902113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonthephunglan.vn/upload/files/17409265357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50700218712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/zumirasefopilawozivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=tietojen+siirto+lumiasta+androidiinPDF 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_off0000ed4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10560 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 7fef276746dbdfce2cac92b6d78e5cc7c1f853c03a4a682976091eb28f2c0f2c
font_02_sfnt_off000130c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C1 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 186c2e31107c5391ccbd1211376af2c26742263f62a7ddbe2e1a102d7f6c053c