Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b5109d90e4e07ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:12:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: edc9776dcdb2b032035be2dee686371b SHA-1: cc75a94603c9ec47f65cb1a6b4ef2a8a718aa787 SHA-256: 5b5109d90e4e07aebf4f47ddfd2769e5c256c19e2edf8ddf98ab0e8c8fd46310
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+flash+usb+drive+firmware PDF link annotation
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/dudimubotomuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endeligmandag.no/e-brev/data/div/zikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b67e4afbe2---54177802424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/fejulivumusiragiwulefefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pubuxifiberari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p39r049hgpca771nq9i8ln2017/32246751188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acd41eee8b0014cff61015804d462d33/39614591632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/gapagasetapepivikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/98168384151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba06b3b43b2---19106870049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/juvamebaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74f2d3e941---45851997090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzmbc1611.com/clients/e/e6/e6eb4f38db7021b04b945082fca6026d/File/97605193359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/36302442916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/vadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jofiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/fukopivepekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/xaxejexijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716b73b5097---favolovukemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c616c4b3f63---40466705983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717511754462d6230c29be86f5d7be15/lazewidobageximuwupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62bd4581a923e6cb5ae50d28e7fd107/72904746357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/20292028380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqq5h66aq0ovm49crvrmp062i5/wupakixu.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_off0000d9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FC 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 8f333d504b452569e43982b6206a8d751a8ba1f3eb0e324402a1eaa5ff720753
font_01_sfnt_off0001053a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D51 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 75d5aae730a4709273a9f38b999f2b9a4cc88252082fe06ead532140effac066