Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5de96e30e1fa441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2f4fec4624e11050e8f3711692f3e641 SHA-1: 7a22b2f544c0143495c2041b2d70f99bc522c0b2 SHA-256: d5de96e30e1fa441c9d826898dfa805c0ec7284b541c6b9ddfb407f1e72ff195
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/39967591206.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/42694590989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/23757663574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/81518405459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/77036466666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/90255672956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140aeb20f15e---10814451558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/652473829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/24871658495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e460b5b001ad5eeb5fc697249f1f98e/jakimasuwefewiwovebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog/file/21971266225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319e150f06a---domaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/76431990807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/32729305276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/xabavuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/zogululo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/50866814442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246d5386c9dfb31f8480d5496f7f278d/fefilumotobupavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/89816913440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://special-pharma.com/upload/files/fawuwuboduvogefejudubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefimejuwidiwegabubuxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/vigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/23040986215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekifokevaxeretawigulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/sawoleratipodavinonisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=product+key+office+365+pro+plusPDF 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_off0000f008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF008 18476 bytes
SHA-256: e6cccfb3e58269a9dd3abdb9e619b3a9b90cef82dfb67b6efa38bce367796d43
font_01_sfnt_off00012029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12029 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13840 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 664a748b2142b78c04d3484a5d449f651d69fbd843d9360573d287dae02a9611