Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4e861a2dcb2cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dd85c875e69c105d477cbca4d20c46ff SHA-1: bfa0f4d27bef5d1f5a656c8699ac71acdfaf592c SHA-256: 5b4e861a2dcb2cc1358703e34773b3eef17c15293aaa47907ca76adc8ee38b64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious File

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+vita+di+galileo+brecht+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a57f7eb144---87794806423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srutimusic.org/userfiles/file/murinowolizowodokuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113f61fbb81b---defizadewasarikigomozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/newuzemoledof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/354ab9a194f529813a4463224e260238/komubekexavirilonizidawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11719545a2868dd9a38d746a9aebc6cc/lizuzabiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/45434311986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kivhmief55i3d3d5dadae859gj/23098695667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/60067177021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/57834802989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/rimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/medasurazepadulinuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5cbd8597---55889846216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/tegekewosomabeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa401486ae2---razasirapenidaselenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817a5146634---botugegivifowokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81416601777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/wijekipozokobejelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/40792487908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/samamoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/33133344160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogonorimuzejanenelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/2426577975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/11765995125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/dilow.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_off0001019f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B6 10792 bytes
SHA-256: f9a9a8e11cb5532e8fffca449cf31824292eb41c2a9251274ae60b3403d5da87
font_02_sfnt_off0001323b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323B 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 096c50b6e7239e62d473badcff62ca3ed188642623a64f55c1dd0e06f8e26343