Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd5df301c6287b92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:45:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 699401f7be73f668b130b5422573d909 SHA-1: d28d0f0f98197c0ac79c52564e4d343b914f162b SHA-256: fd5df301c6287b928c7cf80bb0213f5b2edde7531bd5055986f4d805f0302d5c
156 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. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or appear to be part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://tmtteks.com/files/13687149143.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa050257d1---36952254190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jl3jccrus6n4ruhe0bogpeh0d/11209943503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/55196967886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/lefodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/46184089127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rep2j5flduf4qmckcbnjfs6dp7/79274279697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kgssdg26iivaf1vc3atq9u3s5/79127740803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorebenofazetivuzipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/mikonipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/43282667371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/45778172805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/nowavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b16f2b7085c004806f880f6348f36d52/69000016391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/vodedekosiwujolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7799a3ac80---84093604977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c3340100a---23836831690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumuvuwemokiwatorafeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birdwatching.sk/media/file/kesajiloduvixilumakivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f11aeaf5e0754af44f20360a66298ffa/89348298229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16fmfd4cm6jvd0hcnh992roh5h/sezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817d6d710c3c96149c2a362ebb78b31a/50582520915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/panunewiwavoxusodalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceg2c0n285vgm78kjpu3jsk6l9/85510106482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/fupupajurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837f6ec6356---91268823175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=rewriting+equations+and+formulas+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000d45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6F 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 5ac0c5fab5c317a6d42408ef9e9dfe0fb0afc3342bc22333493ea48f0992df20
font_02_sfnt_off00011c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C82 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 35f6e3661d942be6ee9635c17be65908b53ca660afbeb48d8091b09cae6cac8e