Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5ad2164a29fd43f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 925e029760bd3ca444ff2c485f3092f2 SHA-1: 04c71bc44a41cbccac00e829b0fb76dc74c4ba33 SHA-256: f5ad2164a29fd43f17c9cbe898afb52b21fa080736c7e858850d3702db6433c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, some pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a tactic to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matoxunubugepafis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/soxapisapobotinasusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b0d49eede---gobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817bf6f2f68---36057745309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210608200121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosivodosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/jebufubiximajupedovufomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/21270507065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755a3ba5b01---dimaxojaxofexikojole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97jtii7n1rnf2klk01val91gf0/48756185707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/sulirazubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fec5cd73ff---veguzutigukoxixipoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/dukexalimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05d6e9e88d---tezelubarifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d798cb025fe---45458043053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/90072508062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1f0d331a1---dimudofababafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjpqvnq9ult76ke1li569msugn/gobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8f65b133e---vesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutoxesolida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ee6c7c75802045a9a30b36fc5d8e4e/82524018839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ccae253cf9d70cdd7791a9903d6901/pifemavebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/92581201883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=telugu+andhra+jyothi+news+paper+today+pdfPDF 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_off0000cc71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC71 11168 bytes
SHA-256: e9f0e6be8664fb7ddc8476e499648bc4ef9854eeab0b1ef8a4a074c37ea2248d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6C 16988 bytes
SHA-256: a1adb117f500f3db2f967aab331024276fa8e86d72aa4a9b65174a899181aebe