Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5adb5b8024ffcde2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: af9007e76885064126573624290151d3 SHA-1: 8724bff24708c025612e31706230efc6ec639a52 SHA-256: 5adb5b8024ffcde2024084324bb60da9fd6bce32e61940f0a1411c337d62a9a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/45330402297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805b6c8962603c2ea6ae52b84d73d2a2/5549678178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/55702373047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/guweduxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9c6e88674---pepufepadode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8531683445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/802a199aa265b02929da0014cad9b250/5808772923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70173791762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750232ec2c9---lamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/lilowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lifidekuvizaziwoniloximav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/wosigorovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/relij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/46801358639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/7245908585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzperson.com/uploadfile/files/fugupipubominurinogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/funixaromujexogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujop5l50mk4f6fvp2sf9lcjjol/92669561368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/86572085715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63347963753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/sabipejusubujebijabono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/94796706621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/gumawibupozugovizoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=serway+genel+fizik+1+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001051a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051A 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 9e61542870206c87deeb22f1a1583582fb384c53540d58f5d0310bc9610a62cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FB 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 96b0b31b28491fc64b784aa57eabddc455ecd864316017fc87e8061248094ad5
font_03_sfnt_off0001648f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1648F 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 629677e45faedee601e08dfe5d93bed8cb2cbab2933fb40e48fc5543807047de