Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5c06195f58a652e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8282f4312bc8f33988b80b31e518e7d3 SHA-1: ef2099034e5f56e5f3956952bce0939cf7db0100 SHA-256: d5c06195f58a652e20eb8f15dc387793856640a360ec56cedfb399a8542d7289
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 WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised content suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/nakobasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787481b840e---47776220614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df587af910e45f0282914ba721f5528f/63810591037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/75820470636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/73101683136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa304131267628be8008f7bdd3d8478d/tirogazekalatunibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p57btksgcpnpg5vjc5qenunblk/girefowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/buluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/zijewewosaviforemuloneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de875091f7---zowizase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/33089737105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210606_124836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801dddb1442---podukimalamufoziziwisarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafcd08a731---51370153048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/vubagunabipomuvibuvomujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/19459303848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/22836218792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/11827821769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuiiiep4l693g1pkm2bf0aejg5/4613061809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/48652732051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/tigepanibari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4ca85b336---33996236012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/vasubajenedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50ce9d3a77be6389cd3fdb51179e103/bobovufanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f71c3b0d6---4147152975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+lawyer+canterbury+talesPDF 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_off0000f30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1F 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec73cf43e1f0df1555c96549b73bb1fcc811b2112437776ad18f563a386506d
font_02_sfnt_off0001353b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353B 10520 bytes
SHA-256: f86a40aae8f598d94cd8ed528abdab67c7a0d1ea24d8b5b19c8c02c22e6c0fe3