Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5152cc172b7a562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eba787e21b5f5f498f4bfc01a8dd52e5 SHA-1: ece778bc23136c9dd39f08a7befe88fba77f835a SHA-256: f5152cc172b7a562483a2a2f46fe7a115bd0b87c28b0cdfa5b3aaf875c520b9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, as these indicate the use of link farms hosted on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wide+flange+chart
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e25b239bb6eb0d09d306a9bf953b437/mewoxanewuvigirel.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/28856848675.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936bb078e1d---fonezidinelokijewomivove.pdf
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/91438318768.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c43d8507a0---83165723631.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0f54606fb9746d16b5504eb7b5a439/zaxoninunuwanedi.pdf
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/19735094572.pdf
    • https://hyundaia.ru/userfiles/file/medafiro.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715342aaac4---55360889575.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q57u0kobudcqkmc7tn3ts8v1o3/98807561517.pdf
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/dagusiriviloxodejoro.pdf
    • http://mamnonlittlesun.com/upload/files/lirapudozekiragimumizun.pdf
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/9438191327.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8033ada2ed---nilurajufamip.pdf
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/nofogivufekiru.pdf
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/47401215233.pdf
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/48037116830.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075161b86397---68836183669.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca132c1fd5---12951104419.pdf
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzonofibozegagaji.pdf
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/zekalonofogipezof.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8434708b2efa5aa248843ea20c754791/97441732274.pdf
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c40349601e631e1ea989b46b9b72606/18879421704.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a49c6037c---16737845322.pdf
    • 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_off0000f02f.bin
574860a41ce7b585b898c1a4049ca039459ca8fc30865898d3743eea5fa7a325
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02F 17068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c91.bin
c5b53560c6b6b7d1a50d9f3ba31dff71fedbfc12f0baeb4f05558fbc05513e78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C91 10460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133fe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FE 16792 bytes