Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b32b63b8a30206d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 31a216a68e7cba7b39ade01acd9a2e0e SHA-1: 2c5abf88987dfaef60e75e60e906736ebc794e21 SHA-256: 5b32b63b8a30206d643bc4991f4e519d16919690f9ae041c30ae5d18344324de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to exploit user trust through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manx+kittens+for+sale+near+me PDF link annotation
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969dbbbe7aa---xogababujadaziwavigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/xanamilidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cdb392c96---wilanubabelamasuguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/17915112913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607254a69c4e8---vebevotowirupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1610e1a030---rerawopizefiketem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/loret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/razakujawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/supitolujovoxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/fevoxabusizinewapivesipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af552607a52---59687590979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e8a7fac97ab733358041f78cba52e7/9845880678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/pelopujodovoregabigobojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b59b4f14acc8d5bc419111ab826a07f/73137565295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32417d974bfd38f8f812e70f6e91c528/fixudijupebajabevegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b81dd51f3---dalotitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f36fcffed---3721507628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd59582d604---suviwunotudaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/zitepesijupose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpvgvh8n43k5ekrj525t893ehj/lisesumanodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3afb0d343---33886494714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kftdi6nsk27oipmgql79195jah/22653790398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a458896bc---41941020630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3D 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3719a3bb95bd3a34f39432751e7ae9515ab4d0bcbf6ed4aaa9b348cadca01b
font_01_sfnt_off00010256.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10256 17512 bytes
SHA-256: c554a33d2b77fb9d06f819ad35a4a97ce09161f5ca85c5e3fe43dea5e6228cec
font_02_sfnt_off00012ff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1