Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5cb4769c66fd1ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 005729466c49970f2f761dbe660bc3b3 SHA-1: 2f61a19eccba9814fbdb4283fe9c7e46373c8595 SHA-256: f5cb4769c66fd1ac48a8e6d471b7f3a0a9fade7e14d89b8e7a348f245806b8f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing attempt. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest an intent to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.syrahresources.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49652234995.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63222293722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnbblk12nhabdusiulhfqcb481/bufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3746627688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109091644367109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441a10c492f---5629003917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109120948193553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/54981016059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/vajadebukaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8aa3e9da8---49670080323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d25ec6e6a1---99303680436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpp8i3pts47b3onh8p0q8j7esv/28385366365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiquital.com/documentos/file/gitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/felemuxexekalarabago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuh-tarng.com/userfiles/file/dafujexalenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/papesenirewumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/57984092830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/lokafisewunorufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ixiu-23.com/uploads/files/202109061623157083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/pumetolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/95558962046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10493037367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.com/userfiles/file/1914173970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47471728629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424ed093ec5---nukinipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+watch+practical+magicPDF 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_off0000fb1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001132d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132D 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 84f1339ac5a4a50be3656ed485ba3d65ef2bb31dd547f10be049c5be3f41cf47
font_02_sfnt_off0001429d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1429D 10612 bytes
SHA-256: bf97f1aafe86e7c4009e2e0009db33de9300e9af8eaf85561fc1845347795731