Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd5d0b3f4fddf339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 20:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ef9dd0267d7f03c26d8be55947457102 SHA-1: 766dba2a45701f73fb6075b6e3e69a6513148df7 SHA-256: cd5d0b3f4fddf339af6b1fc223e7b039d9fc0634061e94daf6952ec2ca57bf85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination or to leverage a large number of domains for distribution.

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 http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///202107054222_271449507.pdf
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/45464998782.pdf
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents//files/86520922163.pdf
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/norabusenemowulapizibaraj.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bpq9hph6i8ht5jtl9eckaebl3/pefubeginusoso.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160888e3fae6e0---40482013716.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svq38bi4hlqvsb1hp8coemtoi0/fenobifuxa.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896dba931b0---9599097739.pdf
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euuod0961emh4ieadmukdtjr3u/dakeritegovifaforezasuja.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6f88d24d2---jijexika.pdf
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/dilovozazerevodurawo.pdf
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42291080890.pdf
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/73567345324.pdf
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51056e0466133091bedf253dcb6a0ff4/83246750105.pdf
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51fcee68fb18bf9dcdcfe2a204334b87/27634614112.pdf
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/rapagajanesaf.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088acdc5fc5b---93267781462.pdf
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10321499840.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d49b958c---pexutoxixilovimezojituxok.pdf
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/1828033322.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4f9f590a6---silerogifegejanati.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e5ecedc3d---rikajerapinogerurojaduki.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ab73080ea---pozenolewugur.pdf
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/33718026128.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+gum+in+a+dish+song
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c579.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC579 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd90.bin
85b07df08e971334916f8b52189a0e2ae85a03cf2916a6989d8a27aab7150698
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD90 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5f7.bin
28e01de893a6cda8c5180d9189862dc5c07bdf70cd6f46ca0fc61a25c5f12ef2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F7 16104 bytes