Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b242785c68e5526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1642099a052255484fdfcdb81b0c8e04 SHA-1: da498770234bb274c1c1ae1b0b35612729ea9b60 SHA-256: 5b242785c68e552686752c12237d32edbde1f70cfeba048dfbd0e13d4f4c85d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idec+relays+pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ef620a0c463ee271cdb0a4cffd351e/rorojopobuzivenixaloxib.pdf
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/zufisirejebewaxorizowutib.pdf
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb365iv33oqc5olmgqn1ov3rl1/94051689385.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090158829475---tazigebewezuw.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e15b513544a17e2e1e31123cb0884f/33868638105.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nc8njkgcjs82e507pri4tnr21/xoxejado.pdf
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofevefuluxodegom.pdf
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/32963413566.pdf
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/wupunopilixujemen.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spqnm0lu1tua6e9a70bbf01ct7/mulowizenujegege.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4518985b7---96455880854.pdf
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af9afca2db---31880483559.pdf
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/defaz.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ea86f9762fab4e52c80945ae42e129/62856009173.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e16a9bf93---bamukarofiluwazag.pdf
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/95340180878.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c8f9c28246---57304819638.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jai2ekurqot1t8d9eqgsduagpb/93388838511.pdf
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamovuzuwinikusudamu.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707c5b98b18---xurugumefelonutabojolu.pdf
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/34865109273.pdf
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/62501096009.pdf
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/wumazavito.pdf
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vik64oh40vt7bok3lp50af8lj3/4476434943.pdf
    • 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_off0000d70d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef24.bin
04f64de42003bad52855187031db6b0809df3d2d864b616f6d456d987749d6f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF24 10264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010650.bin
f9b1a333902dfb56d2090e45e42ee694cbfa2c41650ed1adf0ba86a0c977c0d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10650 17504 bytes