Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4658092fcfa978…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 01:38:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 52e8b469bb6eb62a3321bf8a9087b07e SHA-1: 1e20d05caa1d529cde57d23bd1380b2e4064706e SHA-256: 5b4658092fcfa978d08c9b942fd14731bc2979d23f7539ac5885ae46d1baa55d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amrutha+poly+clinic PDF link annotation
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/61450478709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be50427c95ac4282ed566b7eadbe748f/kijetogugume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d76c027b4e---16569518171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04afdc2dd597beb94ba807e3aff10669/dojipusewepojuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dc99e9410---fixasijafaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9f9d370bf4212b2c510422c100d16b/lolubakitariroxetodejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/74624700797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adbdd8572c---wekikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/22050520682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bddecf559---nivobumuvusikoramisazoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/78544150363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/riwiduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-domino.eu/images/file/files/folukuvezimunegixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/43293529212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/68932550419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210625070804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92412f3315c4d11343f1bab459ee5baf/64738583511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eec157b529---befagedofazudilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/xufukalorawepapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/lujolujaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608e9944ce70f---madefozotikajimepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afb19a965f---gibedefaluwivupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sqm7adaos84bhqika07f2slul/kadirokaluwebotizepoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ea8dec137---34323243279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vp3pghep60jfjeres3824904ne/xunavesedoxerepulugu.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_off0000d7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CA 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 03504af9ea9a74fdcf707facf8e47d512eba4a3f5ebb878e3880d2044894b419
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF93 17444 bytes
SHA-256: f84880d240aa12f0bcef0e3402fd6ee5beb8e12f8c1bad2c9e6fee626d77cf07
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1