Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df5ece5921de3c1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4dc69b40710309e3a3adb4f80f2284d3 SHA-1: a25bbca8a1aa3139733ce63de6724781b51e660a SHA-256: df5ece5921de3c1b13e4da56ec6368d0cd2f4c0da14daa5219b96cd67e5b7ccc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/88607688534.pdf
    • https://medgal.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14205433013.pdf
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/nozelo.pdf
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_C55B75A7DDE908CD.pdf
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/75868444659.pdf
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/9158031489.pdf
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/36148320542.pdf
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/50748866474.pdf
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/xozutobizikusufojizofeg.pdf
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/vizabefa.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378d79b1076---lajivokenezolodapirox.pdf
    • http://airmon.hu/images/files/27636373783.pdf
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28335133962.pdf
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62280410667.pdf
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/siluvaviluwifow.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7077f4bc967df8dd07c75ec7aac71e24/59666613838.pdf
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/23891315295.pdf
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/zodusoxetoromexunoxegi.pdf
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/87160679659.pdf
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/xakezagumavujenutir.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131aa7a55252---26794667773.pdf
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///selolavizewuzipetenokil.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents/files/bexas.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+hack+download+android+1
    • 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_off0000c26d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC26D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da7f.bin
2b20d31965cdc72755a36cc836cd1d35cad19694884143e737d73dab58a4b5f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7F 20460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000110e2.bin
bc3ac0bfac0f5584788f4a94bd2a5a0cede9147bec2965e5dbfd7bdfe39825b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E2 11024 bytes