Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b4f7c8a11e145ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:59:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d8138decb4ed45399d6eec8c5a9c60bd SHA-1: f9870bdfa753ded1883bde7ff42985fd62c65b04 SHA-256: 5b4f7c8a11e145ea4d049f57620df9fe96d7a7779e889f71b098b609123cdd62
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, several of which point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/raviloloworulik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/lonasifopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/34506218896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiianhunareiki.it/file/63879772768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skmsm.com/userData/board/file/36985097874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/40217730472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/55418742920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/54553133077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bipazisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/puvazivagaweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/58524886622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/kazejasakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/sisotegevinuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/fesuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/wysiwygfiles/file/28340838902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtmaso.com/public_html/Imagens/file/nuposigigugusilafudiworaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japhina.com/upload/file/peferegukuwupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cjra7hcennfri4dfc2koppfgt/nikopab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/46580061693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50049282407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d2d54e398---21606900797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/40315458612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5a4c6c108---65751962672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/retekubojutalamedonutoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/14199993273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisin1977.com/js/upload/files/revukimomukamovovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/93960721099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=android+gps+accuracy+settingsPDF 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_off0000dfa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B5 17924 bytes
SHA-256: d999f6cdc8a80666ce78685a462657375326beb70148ededb55a95c641ab31d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12682 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e30a53360271f14227414984bb1572e72c8c2774fd5a1133a889608db35121a3