Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b3c4c80eef47328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:38:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aecb215dba9c3b9b7caf79d60de07267 SHA-1: fd13e6e25316f12e62b9c0d9d0523d84f936d684 SHA-256: 5b3c4c80eef4732857108fad154b2d7e57b02e5f36f85b69718390f3da0e24cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://menifee.hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/93280446724.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613113a4aca46---54122175163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/12048125972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/31412840377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96702655611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/29828697224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/16044406135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/bigifotenugufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/jorilibesazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/bojadalexonumefegaxiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/19236461774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lghluiboebheri0utjllr0n8v5/noxibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/32617560352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabodupupapewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/nakixafisufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/95716191882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/92949606035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/kupolimatumixekogobuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/fimarosijufuzokejotigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94177083764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ffafed29f---78445895414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23392150760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13047245925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/84377887872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/razavinegoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b01a8876b3---55122539315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+record+screen+on+android+with+audioPDF 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_off0000e79f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79F 17908 bytes
SHA-256: a25a5d46dcdf7f56c732c68cd3c8bb40b19de09bb281856b22b3e550f7bf353a
font_01_sfnt_off00011623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11623 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3A 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 86fa25693153a8ec558d444dd481a7c5337d7bce64d1402d33e9261f1af89438