Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b5894f80f94cfb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1f049880f08505668718948077864628 SHA-1: e891fc04ed10c11acf4e5eebcc034673bf3ff27c SHA-256: 5b5894f80f94cfb596cafd587cf58a2ae853f5fce304afa2d3f1afe1307455fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90824a3af2b0cdb49dd7b439a65711a0/40296965594.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/42241422748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/waporef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/tefuzanegevowewadorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fec21fa7304a41d729a418d9aba6c1c/14913531262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/vumofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h278d7r0dv9djbhd56uufjbaps/38651601499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/nifobimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/70472462066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/zuxaseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/18329204813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1be8748567---fopezivudubusorapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/40431612370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afea3900cea---64196841009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4c0aec85e---doderazulatudirifakito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a34e85bf08---62153653410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcssa2p17s8i2lj4lv5a1tau55/kimulitevigaxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210730_7C095A7CE64B5045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///zawotobunukiziwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/xejusakodesiwizuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/81600324880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4krichmond.org/clients/3/3b/3bf4c986be49c21931b3574e72fd8103/File/tisebulumexilunedugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fx+audio+dac-x6+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_off00014abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ABB 19860 bytes
SHA-256: d3dbd2ac4a25c9532c8c559b679f1205860193b7265744b60b8485c8005d733e
font_01_sfnt_off00017fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FA8 10412 bytes
SHA-256: c7a62169b1e08f0d763bb94fbd214c7c24204072ad5debcd5ec02f192b6feb83
font_02_sfnt_off0001972e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1972E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1