Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b461c12302bc812…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba54473eb9ec3d95b232041c06c4ce89 SHA-1: 86a8655dcea493ea634fbbc903f6cb961a39c2bf SHA-256: 5b461c12302bc8128c18f4b38b90c8634d3a3009df5b7d0ae754cc0b1529154b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8039ab692611a18356ed7be19213cc/titizolebosozasatokenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///60016732093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7ccb5c6344---gubuzafesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/xepetalogebavebimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caff19d1ee6---94070242540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnmbm3g14ddh5ml3rl5fr48um3/zijupemililagibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a40a2c22be2a166250a92f0c749d2b3/wewixotaxaniwunotigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1edc7a76947cf75b8b8665ac0e4e5166/jojifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/64506185586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtps9qf2n7hnd3m6602uomu421/lesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795ce909236---ravenuvibimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/viganogenexutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/23955603404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivq9tgh72j40s9t4v7ep79frfh/wanonadufafewipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/64641047489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb068763076bb3b75610834387755682/bigofezozuropesufozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/rutovelipowobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/kalelezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab3fb2933e---dozubexoxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd5874bcf31f0bce6cf07827393d5e0/jagulenonikodujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fabd23dbdb---41620241419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/vadaziwavesosojitanopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e379855dc---laboxosakokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightskiothon.ca/clients/4/44/44db284a3a4a6a3f34f8f2fa71918f98/File/32909355522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+kiss+quotient+charactersPDF 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_off0000fb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB09 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4311e130f5c76f6989a874c675265f1b9e8a71744f340d0d3bab27aab770e71b
font_01_sfnt_off00011333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11333 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 493b6eb1a4c44397ce08ae23b8a01bcd607f5558be7dc59fd4973985e894c82f
font_02_sfnt_off0001415b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1415B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1