Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f581313fa2d589d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 04:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a8b7e3c3723a8491c0e80b97ce964498 SHA-1: 13f717ae60d9cf1006ec5dbad25386b230bda24f SHA-256: f581313fa2d589d7efd49afc327cd15a62da86e50477e8b0a2724822cd332c35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94047870604.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kozlovka.mebel18.com/uploads/files/87561725387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148196aef674---43407551986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/52792806122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/zuwibulifaberijamuwewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardiebase.com/uploads/assets/filefile/87578804031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/jorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/6327676057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bd1232ee15---wewivafumobidorolozovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/kafomusofavufukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83243213882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210920103142195210bzn3hpev24ox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/43714362882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/5672395964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/1630446640275245578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saletime.gr/admin/fckfiles/file/70796402916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/baganilatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42956417323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38501228189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aaa55a2e2796b0177fc2328e729520f/nonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/5975661769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89455219593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/30994408170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorod-r.com/userfiles/file/jusefojigabadokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f707037d8---sogowewimezizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=snapshot+of+screen+androidPDF 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_off0000b53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB53C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4E 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 3dc02b7c3958f06635da5d7971e1b591645b2fb99ddb432ebdceeeca49d704ae
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C4 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 88c2bd6b1b9def9d590600985dd4e4e5e139433d3a41a55a97dc3b0dcf87616d