Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1c5aea309e9a4d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 12:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3858abdf9e843644c665dd93a4518ce1 SHA-1: 5d3162910cd761a36b25d0618ee6543c35ff71fe SHA-256: f1c5aea309e9a4d0161c5974eb5ede59f48fae26a38459bf8e86b950dd795648
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to exploit user trust through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://dogable.de/userfiles/file/67129507917.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46d281016a---16111226753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/tusugugekonameworesutexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4779631c18---60326277490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumezupuneselasazabosoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fc72aacb1---govejisupemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c83e0417d7---35728305160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/senoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/63118807466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4er6qco7egd2nhu32c2oqipo4/24071053681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f9f9b1c1ae71d2043b88c8627690d5a/gapurinefuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/mewagikanepurofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc8a56958df---71193273364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f99faf49cdeda62794efc3dca41a939/pororowidevekakejaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedaxivevusijopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/lidivirujugode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zolonobosugerasifabanomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741ca97d916---nitofoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56043ae3f1ba470095410848192b40a/zemetavibevogopelavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/96730982167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e69343a17a---21359770185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ec704dc0c---25955825776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+speed+up+my+samsung+galaxy+3+tabletPDF 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_off0000e602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE602 16940 bytes
SHA-256: e89b02d0625183050998fcc04b3c3080c469b2a2040f725caa57a4cd4e68cfe4
font_01_sfnt_off00011221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11221 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A38 11248 bytes
SHA-256: c9374ed8cc697c3c29c7362628b336e194f1a5a14f5bf59e250194fbfb7b4fcf