Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5c9adbaf3216076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 22:44:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b0c867c6868466af3d765d77103dc035 SHA-1: 19b9165ccffb17996f52dfa3d7fb5fa6d3f5c8cc SHA-256: f5c9adbaf321607628d2e977291938ec4e7fe4eeb119f66d1f9ff35f86c4b1a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection further supports this phishing and redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=antibioticos+betalactamicos+pdf+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/82262424848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d3e6056ba---xasipabazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/suxelavovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/43759029543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/11449973465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/54593199554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwort.de/userfiles/file/vesanovimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/69899052158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a816f3634---37934486865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stuscsp1a4n04hvofdfrhlcagb/70062495468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/76435747076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/ramusurenupukesegomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07f2daa4e9924ff3b709ae41e5af533/geratoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/zenogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/goxunufobalanafivizurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trimblehighalumni.com/clients/84492/File/futivugolotewasawejuzelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df5acca4337---86880584511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/61665354282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/16344343367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/73121413180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokoxunuzebowuxebezajaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/wurawomapujanopogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/fibiliraxazozinevavijiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/93438843786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED16 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 5b1c7b7aa19d66e865cd14c1e2a44c3fbccad220f026bd0227862d842c756599
font_01_sfnt_off0001075e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075E 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 19cb05bc9c915ec76f508cc4792cba130c80032d2df6b4bf3edc6ab08898025f
font_02_sfnt_off00013409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1