Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b3185fd4f53d772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e18494affa03ffa77f7dc05ad333813f SHA-1: 59c3d265baf95bfc5b9c17a152351e983924ceb1 SHA-256: 5b3185fd4f53d772915e4f2af1ac9c12133bbbe74cd7791d5e5093b1a1a0e31c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating a malformed exploit stream and a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The PDF contains numerous URLs, many of which lead to potentially malicious content, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The presence of exploit-related heuristics strongly suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://777mto.com/contents/files/13889513249.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/72197107911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eddd986a2e---64608287458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24081174946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/genanolalufosonenuxoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/vupudoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/84356537629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/bijesetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_DD246AB4F84C0AF0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/walom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/sezutimimifodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22d9602eb7a8c86521a142c0b6fe63e/30626017462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/54419273152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/48804743202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/zulokazeguzaguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7nn4o6d37re9q8k4pqreqgfp/88492943496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/49383754557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109050804381834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/32058987986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/93203206716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/ninimuravuzuporavila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6794fd7f2decfcbb8d595559cf4b894/16667256970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614499fa9ca3b---lizapenesuzotibofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/kavofirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=secret+background+video+recorderPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A8 10804 bytes
SHA-256: fda0d0c1fd49421eb1e909e04f15e865b2588fe9871ae3916d410bec679fbd07
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE82 17728 bytes
SHA-256: a5b2e68042fe2ae0fb33822387b81a66e3c2e127ba7447c6c6356f2fb1b68535
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE7 16920 bytes
SHA-256: b3c462f70becf758b74790427ce88f98d309c5d3d9f6c04c47214bd3253e6206
font_03_sfnt_off0001456d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1