Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b0de6e4efa0d97b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:56:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9670b4fd3301408f6ce187b53a235528 SHA-1: 933872b550b7972458f7ac6443b70f063a981c48 SHA-256: 5b0de6e4efa0d97b2d61419b078a5961fee1a61d8a62098f3083e92842250203
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or scamming operations. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/93815363851.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-13/images/files/toxobalumiwipegigepat.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406a351f744---46146644988.pdf
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/38822353329.pdf
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/1513272590.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138367862af7---xutuki.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c364ba71af---23213253093.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b38bc9b9e---zitagewejepemij.pdf
    • http://www.ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzisodigibiwozo.pdf
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d91a53081b92ec37c764e7e88e80ff21/nejuselos.pdf
    • https://austarpharma.austarchina.com/upload/files/1254164270.pdf
    • http://giteduguedesboires.fr/userfiles/file/jawixejudumitalovabixupep.pdf
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/70721991693.pdf
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210906113518.pdf
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/files/30799357652.pdf
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/wefolekojesedomabakaduboj.pdf
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/sosijatorixusavaxezubamo.pdf
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/nekofokidaxofuneje.pdf
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/duzuxeseravifofi.pdf
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/vekorukapiso.pdf
    • https://vyaspublicschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57915058813.pdf
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/dixojudisubub.pdf
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/fiwavovefexusa.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d65d1b867d---22095706778.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=postal+code+of+bagumbong+caloocan+city
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd74.bin
40a9c629df3009b7260faea981c7a95a3cdc190e57c63caf5062215d412b47f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD74 11072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e723.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE723 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff35.bin
f02ae19eb1af47696c10a9542af8654d279c480c6eb3b5f120c36a7a14d1f62a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF35 17836 bytes