Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5f2f6daba097d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 96f8fe428130ecd0b1dcde7edc245a7a SHA-1: f209dde9710262099299703e03abc27963e41f96 SHA-256: f5f2f6daba097d41a3f74b867882e301f7e0e1fcc7cc0857bcf038a4cf5b9a9a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, including one pointing to 'smidgel.ru' with a 'free fortnite v bucks codes generator' UTM term, suggests a phishing or scam lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, often used to create PDF documents from web content, further supporting the idea of a web-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+fortnite+v+bucks+codes+generator PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisajube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/6775865407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909051812209808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/10061017395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/68510854038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/33882687087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/14651892182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanujagewokopojojuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/mufabinusuxedubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7cc941c1937714b4b22887633c63778/venijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/87727887765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/50061818697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/wikuzelala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27254516578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/fuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/26321977239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/35076216106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/xenapegojefarobasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e30c7fb060131e00d4fa846290c637ca/nipesuponuwebefakalotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/zukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/damagepirigonesasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/sonanofixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/7952521230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/5599740910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dison.cn/filespath/files/20210907025819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e1e784e6---98787482300.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_off0000cafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFC 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 4034c1e3b8f9f923dd5581c7cfe127ac1f8058cf79b0d98c592d643851cbe2bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC83 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 0d7c5e71638b9ee5ef81a01a4f18ab0519d199a4d1074eb01ebdfdde71cac494