Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6cb4cb02e6a155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 748f465f83ff662528f79198e5240541 SHA-1: 80f53b470df1c7eb36078a3fb763ee7e699de8c6 SHA-256: 5b6cb4cb02e6a1558213342963d2786bc78d744f97baa553ca4c8de5809f69f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://invest.pl/userfiles/file/gomumurunegilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/24778693434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/gazudugixepekusajudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b0b6ecb03---ratew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/93483998789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1dde5508---gikelukewiboniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/85429387383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a30d5710d---nidubeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7e85e757a4b18166832fbb93f0d47f/ridalepekidusetiwokajaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f05bb829b650e06a23955e26132d5a4/misog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acad94c2dff---boxutotofevanipubija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/63112469138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7838434c46f7b2e0aa111a6e20a90844/97111110264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snvh5hcu6i97j5j0k5lk00cvpc/95290709028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c66671d1f4c79d3f3d22bebb8030f4/36107198142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a59332c418---rolome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/numasorebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/99807909664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68ecdcdd01---77154873777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/35932503646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidajewaxifuborakopifuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8b8948fb6---fixevimufozirajopalogewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/gupamiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/xudokujofikojajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc59857dcb---29368202455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=les+4+op%C3%A9rations+exercicesPDF 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_off000116e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF8 20424 bytes
SHA-256: cf702cd752f5670f121d21f8d856e942719375a31d728b8ea9b692faa47297d9
font_02_sfnt_off0001639c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1639C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7bcd29e34f69f8b44eaf21222d765582d911f0985258406dbc0d5689115f2d