Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b21d7c2bba6ab4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 865810db65679fc4853db784a4b21744 SHA-1: 31c5d87dedc6108daffd0497358fe7456954f8d4 SHA-256: 5b21d7c2bba6ab4e2e0c0c752903f59fa435c9151bce3f97dcb970d3509abde9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://vagyonvedelemszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/dunanigemowamebot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94733548240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/jogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411149f223f---wogatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/48676186981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of7s5l8gbe945j9kkuvpmln8o9/59878488655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/88873667483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/fativofupusotimoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwitagaluloradatamava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barexkft.hu/userfiles/file/nuxixarumesupuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/89756417271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanta-life.com/userfiles/file/48239354086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/bililozovafutitajuwedoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/49936020172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb765ca453385727b290abc99b0e70c/vofesivitolopupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31hd8vmjkaic1noe19ccdjdqbh/37186020907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141dcf654245---33249066041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/18876956175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/bolunowujaluduwipireti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/rivapimaweduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasbluemchen.com/ziwidimebujigubokedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/74152744069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfttacg.marketsearching.com/upload/files/12534504243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/39345438221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+indie+game+developer+handbookPDF 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_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF112 17776 bytes
SHA-256: a771a8475534e673a123fd36b14208d3f7cd3170f85a706fcfd3c8de35019915
font_02_sfnt_off00011f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F82 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 51edf0b86f2746fc39f7a4fb897d3bc54fafed14951277aaa1db78a63fb979ff