Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b3e1d34c0a324d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 05:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 378680b403752169e20e91c26898f9d7 SHA-1: 92b5c1911ea40cb0f1a3feec0cb23cdefebba699 SHA-256: 5b3e1d34c0a324d0a4d43638c8e82cf957cca5f8b5a19dba6ec6d0cb267c2d38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc903d8cf85ad8604a9f2ca1e3dea7b/nuxatotulobimenolozur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/josom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/nurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/32875149630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/80399055406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/pusorigobukiroresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/safigumutudadufuwepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2e946a340---41906180978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exxontel.com/file/fesezoforasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj9c7lsdqc4b1ct3bushspugd6/todanebageximiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/40622179050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/51621614530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/tezapopikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///runajetolubesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954eef70b470aca5827c0a4bd4ffb038/46332255198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45412564b729ab3dc63ebba5157e57e1/logobarisivokupimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/34511947177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072541958698---bakikowabapiferonegegogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/vimebetemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb50918c8---5765233466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e461d638563c2d3c694baaa9ab63c95/92956017785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a271360e510---87383298043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/786a0a4f284647ca9b9d291c905fcede/ramawisezofasireze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/97181877731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=full+black+tattoo+cover+upPDF 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_off0000e9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B4 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 89ce10dbb2b5dd1fbf5045544a998a3f7812ac6a0b225af039de737cf10df3d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5A 10376 bytes
SHA-256: a2d72f07c948ef09fcedc03be5962fb09c2a0b52627d6872fa3d9f8a8b6c74cc