Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6d7337a9708e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 30eba2e7953ee771dcd2802626f29a06 SHA-1: 42c7ad243ca9d577037de53baadfd9a59de8eed5 SHA-256: 5b6d7337a9708e1bf38a9e76517cbeccf69dbaea82cadf9405b69dd8496b4943
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+you+want+this+job+answer+for+fresher PDF link annotation
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/36179251535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8239c67b9---53328096778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/85103706299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/28652169487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68662095593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t451tr1t0tacpn28hib9f320l/batelexadebededamixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jghsclass75.com/clients/f/f3/f322050927ea28328664fd088939ffaa/File/budozuruwutatudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/71681118684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d163ab460f---72243400625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15e6b5c8e---37745127437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1793a78f9078b3cf7a15d560c141066/gonetazagiwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/kixeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5691c4e896a5d24dc5fbb57fde8ef5d/dimilapadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58327c4592b8cb75d019b7237454db0e/sipizofakavojuxexikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lordbeaverbrook1973.com/clients/76835/File/139399860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6f9d0b3faff86e10be09cb2314a338/7413753449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e4d8aff5d---31830698884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/zofinukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0b995665c---zeruvozanukonipimino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8118e13aec6ddf9a786dfa466fe608cd/47341382738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/45634914019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b3256e80d---62674236022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnssvk9g1njfu5hc5mh1juqhv8/tumugeguxa.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_off0000f415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF415 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C27 17540 bytes
SHA-256: d1de068bb930fd3f2fa62eabdcb765a20c4205ad60663aff5c2f1e6646ce838d
font_02_sfnt_off000139e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139E2 10968 bytes
SHA-256: cc7102a5d06be3914e4aa2be337b5e61ffd5f1adf7ac4fabdb58d787441cfe2a