Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8f5ce17f1388e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-10-11 22:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 822175aa75467153596428238272d205 SHA-1: 0b8a129fbe8d644927529ceb8dcf4002e65f9119 SHA-256: f8f5ce17f1388e6285a26dbd427009d939ecba4381b0b8610ed2b71bbc781875
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. Heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm on disposable hosting and also points to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://synersys.fr/contenu/file/geboregutuwaporafu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/89788135324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a33d86a177---32730208815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65020181388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465afc3659e---nolapuvakobavimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/lezexetelodivewilifadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/mazeveduvuresamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/92275810325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/deduxugesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96493912328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021092221190575114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db8b39f8d226c72ba8a4225f10ab8d8/vipidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongsung114.com/files/fckeditor/file/73568808103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/55956662978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dymenahealthcare.com/upload/fckeditor/file/67964498515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/sarelekala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/xatubibubirojefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/130732224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceelectric.ca/userfiles/file/26136916193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/55812812064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/64867023837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/vibevudutodobine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/nimewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/51793502091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevavizunakujapipuviruvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/TSvcnjQ06Jg/uplcv?utm_term=front+elevation+stone+claddingPDF 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_off0000b6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D0 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e15e254ff942d1207a52e89fd69df3890ad45096ecd8230aa552ecba0c3bfb5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000df1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 2306ef4486b0ea584ab90b92b69830c1623f45da373855281382734e7b3624ad
font_02_sfnt_off0000f733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF733 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1