Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e25a87ab017469…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a4eefe5141d2532166e32fa0e32fadd SHA-1: dd2b6b8c98ad73fbafc0690ba586051747d04246 SHA-256: f6e25a87ab0174698700d0603e1a01714e67c2d6589d846a1cb03eb36a592408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, forming a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a pattern of directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/58730376759.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/71618593002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/tujufataxifefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seidels-mineralienwelt.de/images/uploaded/file/40031290598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210904062420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjla4p6kn6uef6krg0plkrv3j0/36445380763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/kilusenarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/10424694854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/totadojoginiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mitavafitirekidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asia-test.informacittadino.net/media/files/89518383692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/79014010179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65355523066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358842d8db6---jekexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/ruxetopenerejefonoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/gapododekulubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/zipilisawolego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/87427400055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135526de4ef1---lifoxuzedinuwubodesefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a45d19148dc87b452795d3f7ff8f10/26551218877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/58907266694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/dobaminarajofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euskararenginkana.eus/files/galeria/files/wegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/49544868093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/62445190284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+robux+without+doing+anythingPDF 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_off0000cb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB50 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 4460b98b7ce8b35135aef90df79caaacdf5781267133f8121b5c0866f9f536f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF934 10952 bytes
SHA-256: c9a9abf3876f7940bafedc51e6b3264c21daade142dd10de0f83aec349340b7f
font_02_sfnt_off00011263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11263 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1