Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b55eb028be87937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f50a2944cbef5f89fb1e9dc173da621b SHA-1: b289d3e0a71952dfeed5e4346d6213fc9709b02a SHA-256: 5b55eb028be8793746c0951916865183a26b0f2a3cc4b68e6916d0ff179428a5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only lure with action triggers and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a phishing or redirection attempt, likely to deliver a second-stage payload or lead users to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yuva+upanishad+books+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/28215531838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/punovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17389985369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37654319659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutaek.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210916120056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegrelli.it/userfiles/files/79877236443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43256040091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89153424470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306029ccc5b---luviwukakibiwiwazuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefezumafesixinevarufifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/84359287964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/gibabafugivofofexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913224944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/mefazosunuvazodenuzaxujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijadororerakelukokusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052cbda11ac085c3c30c210038ad6d55/59152456266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/vizowuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150f07d407c6---80351742024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/nafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marikitaberbagi.com/userfiles/file/61493167091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150ac2670ebb---wamutavemidudenipevitovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/76296034055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/zitegokawumiporeguvozora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/wexekijuwuvejupowapupisul.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_off0000b233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB233 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4A 10964 bytes
SHA-256: a54f42f0a584b29dff51c29e522aaddc357e9225d1c9db34e084797f85cd5876
font_02_sfnt_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 13896 bytes
SHA-256: 698fb22bd29ff88746b122bbe8b9bc98bac9246cfbbb5a911705022db0ce2c7a