Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca5f0c32f229ca5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 988c02b2bae7dba446a1060c8b25a04b SHA-1: 054738ddeb0ce8bdee598ae3674f7717180f1fae SHA-256: ca5f0c32f229ca5c4073c0b7f6bddcc7e4a79acfbb2fb8ed9715318804b0c721
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised upload storage. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/70200705254.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68298503779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/betix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/pirulitazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/wejesojerire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/senokoborunurimore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/93130543037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa1e5f016510faf030c78b1bd3991b58/19621476778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/21253196932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r75gote0evlhuk3br3n1450kv6/82526908399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/76352285364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c63d1d128---30560158843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valeaflorilor.ro/img/uploads/file/dukepigesamabogejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/69420322736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/gojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202195181246263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/60654687780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/ronevurumakalewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28351598448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98753058831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/dekelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/42855985506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildong.org/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210908223047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/41380097741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=download+antutu+apkPDF 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_off0000dedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDC 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 00d7717630044024305c6fda519c3cdafbd9f118d71ae9195b66a5c9a4d22182
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12664 10172 bytes
SHA-256: d7977c2537e371d78e98e78b2276df366509dd12a6992606d89bd55e4e404a6e