Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5913b63509d99b0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cd37838e179ff80977aad948bf7ce129 SHA-1: 7570c96729178f2aa2e2d1fc520a8d4b191a535d SHA-256: 5913b63509d99b0df85e16e1dd548701a8388b64c80ad945af1ee857f2c43c83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=differentiate+between+chemical+and+physical+change PDF link annotation
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/62644903403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf46f150b1---88259965778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47077202209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c62f47d51---gabudagopemewina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842371f011f---zuworugalegakomowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e19eb81341---wiwelavoledimidibamara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/wuxusijevifuzubudagesoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ab5f7efc5---vizofediwunefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/nixijijogafinepomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2f39219fb---42657011839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/napexemaduwikomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/kugejodugipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquestatues.com/clients/9/91/91c6e204ee4529d3b478b0717040545d/File/58048335267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/venujefigugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3dnsdmv55pc85grjs441kpl31/32451540714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d179bb54ac---naposogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lvvevgvr6as90h62neqc5h7ub/japukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82874023516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61a0cdfecc0892703a49bc493ed9c27/62906693512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780362ece20---12506419555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b180e5c6a7---62767530192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/bowisopusuxogomimuwoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bc066ea74---sesaxigupefixigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0k86fs3i8pt5q4gh5b6ld0bbt/fumumivugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10608 17532 bytes
SHA-256: eea2c9e3553dcfb7a0989c270903f00b3f08de6ad1520e5654306c17b123b841
font_01_sfnt_off000132f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F9 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 3e44c1a05fb66011aff950213ceac15141a6f9faae3f0821823701e454359722
font_02_sfnt_off00014cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1