Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5ab46345b551451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac9b9cec07cdf6b36e96e67981f0c5a3 SHA-1: d75511454a765ffc0349c7c08e8bfcfcd256916e SHA-256: f5ab46345b5514515db3bd37b17a8f0d9801ec3558e8178f70d5b80ce72f9972
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, distributing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious content or further infection vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hoxx+vpn+apk+download+for+pc
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/palazig.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ee53984dc6c2dc040ea75e3596a843/73888631196.pdf
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22343255835.pdf
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/46981448022.pdf
    • https://renewone.de/files/30011455248.pdf
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73083351120.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51c73f5f6168fbd754baf3fd9acefbd/rebanixul.pdf
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texemosoxu.pdf
    • http://pressvaluation.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/vekewuzizevutolir.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d98b58f44---jeginexe.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5u8jg9f40ngl7onqlbgtbcltqn/wopawunuxewezekezed.pdf
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/tojetovenen.pdf
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/39275193875.pdf
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/noxigezetikomixudep.pdf
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60956321574.pdf
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikajew.pdf
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/92236224044.pdf
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/mulerotubedusobebetajidu.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aaca5295f2513701831f57e825df1e6/xitiroseporawobexu.pdf
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/35773152520.pdf
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/4553305100.pdf
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/mixebebo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b033.bin
734cb38b54d5295293eec369d1edbe7cd79f474b93a4510df38a2a6a09de7228
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB033 10460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c811.bin
9ac62ec3adc3bcd23f1fbe5447ecf13e49cd5ccb545a346bf0ad61eeea641833
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC811 20444 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa56.bin
cb83427253be486b5dc35224710cea1d2a27078ad6da64da340d8beb93dbb3aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA56 1964 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001036e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036E 16792 bytes