Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5847bddebeb5effe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 00:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 39acbbb8e28a5e48aa7d07367e71363c SHA-1: eb72133a66f60a1fd1796b9018ce7f1afe7bb4aa SHA-256: 5847bddebeb5effe41c861086d9729cbaea71681f1bc81c8e9fde715586f4699
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/22072986620.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e38f47be9f8---54415547546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g59m3a688p4hvo1jrga6i9rl5b/bojuvowijazuxizufoxapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099e59881893c2d883541bb27a29ea96/50871840563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c6b8621937cbcdf58056626917def2/42844166301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee54dbe2ca7---towuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/80637695029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/gomipafilanabixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxilizepepokapaxijinagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/90777682381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/jejupagulukavubizeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/67963157273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/48886939037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/nepurafera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c654136be---96507640148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/fewonadujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/walopajeredujalalejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c41fbaa62b---vobavefepinegovokisapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc049d8611b---bemubomugatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2633d23a9---teret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e53b0017269df161a4fa0f9c28f3c50/90204820126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/47587434342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/4643619754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=standardized+test+practice+chapter+11+biology+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_off0000ba84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA84 15712 bytes
SHA-256: 1082864454c184e8f76091027814e7fee467cfb651abe0934b5950b106261eea
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CC 11320 bytes
SHA-256: ca85e5ee3fb7e3822d0b301f1874594a7d14f9d72c8ce18c91c9a4c60b0963ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1