Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4887f2c28a9325…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 05:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 59ca1cb30d82cda0b52b0c2e493c605f SHA-1: 010b57336b07f890d0e4ccd940bd54b53cd1af3f SHA-256: 5b4887f2c28a9325421104a8385105b8709e4ba893b5855f067342cef15af571
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating it is likely used to redirect users to compromised websites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vuetify+dashboard+template+free PDF link annotation
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg5q2jo2osba9m9gbqak3091bb/kopobivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/11495259439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/25834775609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samrayburnclassof1980reunion.com/clients/873185/File/wakuvakifuxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2b5e37b35---nirofemimozerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/84149127931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d46438fdeeb0e2a4b5681d7a0d99795f/42664727870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5839ed7997---tawaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a1bc75217243eb269058556e9462bf0/pagiwuwalifurinatilewajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2665228196---17391187947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072813874cc9---popumomatovimoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/39465890764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd1caeca55---84100557510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d58f200b6501d5f58a9cd0da5f9459/mobedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bef6513295e6eabe031d4ac3e094158/56556142620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8d316921a9fe62ac2bd00d4772e37f/72222817103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdc1b23hiuji7rar3oi137ib02/xidonipepitimobamerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/83393753368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/41072980286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1e1golfj7nmo6flnsvdplvate/fibifolofetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72cd012a63729fb93ac95f353ab75a1/wusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26d81b87f8---dorenafexawegesujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/42773053132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b180c870c99---46397635291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8c1df175b60d9971eb87d462d638ef/88877618934.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_off00010e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 6d66cd47d076237c935750e011b754b9af0f59216a634b9ba93dc196e96f62cd
font_01_sfnt_off0001275d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6F 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 0da90797ff3f967fadc3b3dfb181e638f9cb2bb2e92a3973c8d7d5c44d28c431