Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b304b676c11f8b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.8 KB Created: 2021-10-10 05:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8b2f3db4769d6406d78234203dbf5624 SHA-1: 1d49e2141f4208f43b7552db23c61d2921082fd4 SHA-256: 5b304b676c11f8b86fb22f073d411814f456ebe0ed4a4e6fec9ccce95839bec2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The document's purpose appears to be to lure users to these external links, which likely host malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614396331886e---82352935045.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6264afda8317226602e17d4532c68a/62750082400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/nenifewibonitaxifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/33729960482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/wotekofusipatakavizoxifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/dogejibulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/bawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29569345262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yoimart.com/upload/file/20210918203833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159a191337a8---40076893289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/nuzelatefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109201757284327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharev76.ru/userfiles/file/luwevirakabupunenobofivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonniestireandauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wuxurukupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614effb47e7b6---gixeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralastatetailorsassociation.com/userfiles/file/buwirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/jiboliwubawajibapavoduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcftbqgtghjv5bf5gydg7b.xn--p1ai/files/files/banuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/lafuverapebavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a1702b7fc1895d8a3da506261b473c/26410331423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=latin+proverbs+about+lovePDF 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_off00017602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17602 10508 bytes
SHA-256: b749359d79da70604747a91d08e04352e9397b662fdaa3cd3283422acb2cf4a4
font_01_sfnt_off00018dd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DD5 20976 bytes
SHA-256: 33fd007f1acb88033be7abee0afbea9aa69fea6df6cef3a1c0540877386ad375
font_02_sfnt_off0001c3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C3D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1