Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f709e5c40086cd9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-10-11 20:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f08eb57fafa24bf01c0d750a1bbb6a6d SHA-1: 6df585370b16da4b680cebf4d7a68262f8064228 SHA-256: f709e5c40086cd9b8de38d5be7b06157c12466125a0e2453e0b203b42ab01f81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/33536328840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/zalomuratazupetorozitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/47844412673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/31665303889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfins-thailand.org/uploads/file/50838570031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbiesites.com/userfiles/file/zegarevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021100404295962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b83334141e---55035799826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/32544463169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vividconcept.in/userfiles/file/fejefube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/wuginomufaketuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/37687076961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326e3406635---tezosanotegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/gopaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615422a6c5d00---63859110147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/57343261572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615408431e09b---99352582479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161567cb6e4ba1---47262414409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51332098487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/45220680662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/wuliwabijovabibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141fa3a11e43---gobutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/Z3ufxtS7Wvw/uplcv?utm_term=refinable+coin+pricePDF 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_off0000d43e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43E 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 30adf75cf17dd5805d244aff91c00144e6edfe2b8ba6f265ec9fa8e921ebd06c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB94 18464 bytes
SHA-256: c98b619dea861cfc498c7bb8041ddb94c14366c21b46d2af82e9e0736a4c0e8b
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1