Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0500a8a82cf226b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c0750d27093a36b69be8c04c835bd9c7 SHA-1: ffca2729004ae92fcb84641d7bb8ec8fab481a30 SHA-256: f0500a8a82cf226b819d80c3e9d3efdc7efb9b11c230dd3fee4fb9ec5ba40a7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to external sites. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one of the URLs suggests a potential phishing lure related to game mods.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/nebigimepumesuledexotezuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/jazefitifulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puguwivaxabusufudalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/4894454863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jufija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52113486631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20580915930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tadomexipibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/jeguzodukedepanumijasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92591669810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/51568009664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/xitefupewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/buxuxojopijuwepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/68410079395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/25355560795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/69920627057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613017f784f15---9927860450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gh1r1hd1b4kji0hdafi0imipu4/lunupuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/45053899817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fe5a23b59---weguderigugokolalezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mousumibanerjee.com/fckimages/file/46482381246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+witch+saga+3+mega+mod+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_off0000ca4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4B 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 74a2ac6299609c4105d2ea2b56210b62ab14a5c5b6d11a7f2a487fade565ef70
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD02 17988 bytes
SHA-256: 142a59bc26d1dd1ddb1d31a33cc73e348aa4cdff15ce4cd10f1f6fbd8fb70ca2