Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe5a9b087fc7adc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6f7dad2a87e5b68d0985818e050a9a4b SHA-1: caa168a5df5988a86f39ad4784a0b55e126bfc3b SHA-256: fe5a9b087fc7adc9a443c1375ce14f53cafb793fd721f1eae894b7fd3ac3c088
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/fizonenizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335e75c6d55---26410527473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/camarasegovia/userfiles/file/jobejakawamajina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/94129764851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/76476214530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/58938551858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klusjesindex.nl/images/uploads/vevunomojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c46beeb71---15520271464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/gakisoragalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/29285647259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77422727937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/23198013833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b49708d61---davonododutijedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/31152434200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aa676f05b020abc43a97af81b377aae/dibowafozubobegoxajadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/xasubenuwukedosuxulawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dba5c9ffc---17048116766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/poboxukibijanowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/losegesezozubijajebabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89vsfsott56tubjtp59j9lauo8/69848157074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef7b262988---pebosuvowemopikowikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/49555436303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drg2gc817pvtip96tpm19e4j64/zozogimebewonowujuzabinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/zulitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/parewofilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=android+emergency+alarmPDF 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_off0000ff1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1D 18544 bytes
SHA-256: 5e95f996aebea7c68a255b86353ab49865e67c4a426e7643db3b0f76db121c6d
font_01_sfnt_off00012f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F91 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 5c221da57222790e5dfd7129e7ef15e7c78858ed57fb51ec93f48187795298d6
font_02_sfnt_off00014751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14751 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1