Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b500a854345ffec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3a22c7fb275526dea6f8fc0cc7b4f6e3 SHA-1: e7751bf4569a69c33e47594a0017babb5ed61c69 SHA-256: 5b500a854345ffec9095ab027a5aa0a1fe6ae73db1ac8444777addfaea4a41dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28713161689.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/29736574068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/dumitivirazidofidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0063722604f7b28aeb5544c35e03b62/nulivapufawuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsj02nfvaurcev829gjb01prv3/3092818949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/figupolugazilari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c3c8d09cf544c311796ddde6b197b79/tefizufage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d960c936ce---jawixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1629436846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e0aaf8b7e118420f2110126b9f3d83/kedidilipobetamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14283782732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2246c0075---18544915196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/85112675009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7linc.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210809/file/16284417423765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rochesteradams75.com/clients/7/77/774a1ed2e17b5a3c8fe4214cc08eab78/File/teroxezipaxipumaxugubisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d1bd33744---16250583958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210730_012907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1a2eda85b---muwozekarumelena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9572ea1a922d540d36a8f28f26568fa/76956949509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/7047066365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57bd3c7f00---gusosafezalidefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/3560723189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/67816207108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/tibakejajujadugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lateligetufiponim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/7915782571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=breville+nespresso+coffee+machine+manualPDF 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_off0000f980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF980 19892 bytes
SHA-256: a7b90e42861ece121bccb09cd6df29ca61b55295f3a1c3a7399a7022f2c4026f
font_01_sfnt_off00012d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001457b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1457B 10868 bytes
SHA-256: d990e7c44a01c1e4c30a776ffde8343c15309a86f83bb1e547d80b9d05097e63