Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5faada48bd05c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 99c239cf58ee806c2188fb407d8c2d02 SHA-1: 75e53f701b536c3457befdab57ad7366cd144436 SHA-256: f5faada48bd05c188e08729caf7fc73d6e02bda8d9c3572bdb961d0d5cc5bdf6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+android+folder+in+sd+card PDF link annotation
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/desevagemogakolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613360ee32165---sekazozudowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0828e64ab---vutugumigedelugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/31831786243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/33457309503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/fizuvuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3v4lnd0ipbeipikmfsmpofumd/98469214709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/20414448812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannoorpally.com/uploads/file/mavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/5096_20210917193234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexewipupilogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/rijabuxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/tudavimapapajiwesodatevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/3784652430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/wudutugosuzobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/55948340641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/galuguvozixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a14d62637a---79809521340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scri2rjo4l6mik43agoqt4mip5/tepuvulamafigusonuwisena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/24730582985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210906135122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49189437961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhi38memqk9sevq3r6t8s55i16/29960073801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/6304446189.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_off0000e1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E6 10568 bytes
SHA-256: cecc00033ce0101587fd6b823f59ff41c1163d11a1030c189239555bb90333e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F2 17260 bytes
SHA-256: c4123d300a400e2472fa0e056c9ad70829da9312fc170f57b5ccc469c17c5321
font_02_sfnt_off00012706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12706 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1