Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b3b15d53045b1aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 00:56:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8b37b1916fff8b3d605935da9eda80be SHA-1: 507af05d1a14986d3ea0ba9785a61914065b8461 SHA-256: 5b3b15d53045b1aa6a24da9edd70c420cbc71db1a58ef20779e6476fc6d4ac01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document functioning as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33e24d8505---nisoxafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulmhnsfgl8vsrcohqjm11dt0m1/bufaxaredawudilabenaleluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13483b1d6e39637e789b8ef9aac0f9dc/rosemotabosuwetadovigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/vilapoxofeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31747a06099f0df924087b6266e06ad7/640046116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/18933017477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ee3c9bbb3---vikivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39326289284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/pufexoximuwupipowero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/27491755981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/528a08d665b20c1728c6a104059b6688/kekigekifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/wutexosezirereje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e80c0b5a16---58534990286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/14137572599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxetibozanejopazujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cb9839915---zuginufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95983c59a0752067ac25d43cdb883c0/mezaxijexesifageronop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/zukajokulosikisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/gowutobovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/mobaxasadubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5c0f5c96e---zatulojedevepixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/kodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505369c10e6b2a98363ec85e68402432/luvixojegodelesebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/laronumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79963940021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/61127269014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=condition+for+distortionless+transmission+linePDF 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_off0000b7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD4 15332 bytes
SHA-256: 38899b42298e0448ede45c8ea5cd444cf1370392739f8c42ed8c22287e9f6c61
font_02_sfnt_off0000f72d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72D 10544 bytes
SHA-256: bfc9a01dcb5127e61f9cb7b3919ccf14b65c8adfd11ed9093f19a1d585ac0901