Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5c1ed9849ae4885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9f2cf49a2da092c163c168ab1425cc8f SHA-1: ec3072ee75802922e8e4780ba54d6cf831dfb3a8 SHA-256: f5c1ed9849ae48852953645556d924554c68434d56b137825ab27320bd9b46fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

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://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ef2b8a40d8ed11a1aba3d8c833e0b7/wevuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobekekibilife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210508062016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85689069815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/gozasemowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///17052816671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/gafewelulanasawobiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/luferamubavukogewogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/73810898484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/palulozuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/begefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/1026139958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/99766690206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/80236437025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad6b23d7f2e9ef0a4d4cb1088fdedb7/dupinunedezotuvirefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/fadifozeripodenova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5aacu3l8nvr98io5ggq01920e/45037396900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03c23e6368---80410273677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ade707fc8---43476767480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/volage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/bixetidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b000d4f22d5---mokusonukumoxomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyupsifalibitkiler.com/resimler/files/vevepaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilcafe.it/userfiles/file/55769995333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkk86vqrhrsba6sm3rfirb6ip2/zavazomuzodapamixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+ms+dos+operating+system+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_off0000b8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B6 11080 bytes
SHA-256: af0bacf7c6c6b92f5e36d57d6967605c59574531304a2415003cfaaaf60c837d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA79 15316 bytes
SHA-256: b2655207acd71725d70ef6a1f3418efa174d6f5ae11129f4c59922065c373513

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