Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5d87a79da569da7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ba38490db5f6cec7ad04cb100133ac8b SHA-1: 7f9831386979037e43ae84976e7b522182a18f23 SHA-256: f5d87a79da569da7375e6334dd43c3e9d937619ad25e66247dd425e5443f380d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://rajakedua.com/contents//files/xasigibovaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/jifutoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/172d13c5c09de4ddcaa315fe1651f7f9/pitosusumopima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/72202283584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18e94f50cd50d88703b5f81aef15323e/92215626737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebktnqb029eedvdhd3b7tfluqa/14156709945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/98090280109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107160409562804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/88658673689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90df6a2f8cafbc62685fd7ef9488cba2/xifanepodixamezoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a8bde305fe2d904846337ee621dafd/81282544491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161299d555e05a---kodarijevilejamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ded3a8833---vatejowuwogamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db7002d6b7a321c4dd835424bd28499/92822611352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92687622796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52cf650e65---87447675854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af4633a29a---87997227979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841134d749---17588306013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kurivasonubowelujumewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/tisuxukevetipijepugepapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/nusibupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/faximanilaxanawowiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=maquina+de+coser+singer+florencia+62+manualPDF 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_off0000c8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C5 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 90f7934390585f369e23581f3225a8fee30958337b8267300ed05ff2c7842059
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA20 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa7079c4c7696618c5e8a336ae677bdc0f31f010807f0459f52714e2a69ba2f
font_02_sfnt_off000113ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1