Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b056a52175c5629…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-15 18:53:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e7cb533b4ac10daa1b5065e3e39325d1 SHA-1: 7aa7f3576d37709914c34c206a3cfb0a24e9fb50 SHA-256: 5b056a52175c5629efe4b741d48b95244297648d2f0d42d28ccc3500d5014fb2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting, combined with ML and ClamAV detections, strongly indicates malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and URLs suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kiven+mukhre+to+nazra+hatawa+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782880c137f---mexijukogiwepepixizigivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05edc018a673a0276f40ab8729e0d8ae/mokupujipozaxotijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b2a089edc5750dd410f01e99953ab3/tetasunuzonuxuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8e3a7012adfea4af39858bdb5689490/revanulebufalurefivenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k53bg8d3jim5oa3tnl8l7k3r5/95465605290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dde5d652b4---29333995406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf2ad7fc54---lapuvoxubixazewitobezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/bawirafekaledutuvevowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ee5593bf5---96957699568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/sapemofijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/raruwunurenevowabilumobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6a1b6bebc---5021372512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b20a7560d6---29972634106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c55b69cdd---98889267023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FD 5300 bytes
SHA-256: eea164f8f3f2e5b8263124bc411ff0a3aceff23a0af2a2a09dd3604bfbe7f0f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F0 11608 bytes
SHA-256: 37130b29f861baaa32a6adccebae217c49e61e29250739b1236802807abbfbe2
font_02_sfnt_off00010c70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C70 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378