Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6e43eb55c7728b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:34:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5f5bef28db7248bd0bf8ff5ae13a4306 SHA-1: ce7d7bc0aa16e889a94a0b00ae69c35ab03c3821 SHA-256: 5b6e43eb55c7728bb6fc73dde327347d9fde0dad1f2ba934a002c467ac4c9302
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phishing lures. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised sites indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5p4cir98po7f4uhur4etokp3g/sajabus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffddfd1c3b3aadf111bfe57dcc4dabd/79218214150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b574e226c88---lovasulonusepanagiximatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c084e635410---68212916173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cdae076cb---37963531448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9f13c5778---rurijepavederitipimofunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj0eokrt7vpb1181eqoaiok6fq/zonekufukikakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5374af3861---peduwagabigakegidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/95271350760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b135283eb42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hhfhictip19228b3ptf9ik9t7/98270763265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9608cffb1---72425898702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5sjusofba4575v2shn6795ls53/kosepikamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/13551164567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/77818348706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6810ae45fbe429574a86d526a0ce5d8e/28652023623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/57782860488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/55857026256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8ccee67eedbce0f66af7ed320c4319/rakeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106240456104256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njruf9fckuggjqmn4uf4se3iv5/pudirudusijuzoruwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/xiwusaxitavozirutigurite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/65176764822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e899c2224---80915650189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4cf7540db1d3194f69a0e7bad823ffe/97907585687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=work+done+by+gravity+on+an+inclinePDF 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_off0000ebaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAA 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 657654ff58bf864077193ebeaf699665c8f057304e3c113ac916bf83459a0abb
font_01_sfnt_off00010471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10471 17788 bytes
SHA-256: f733732c4e8782df3f095f2dec639aee6eca9d335b99e9f6e1289256a9de06bc
font_02_sfnt_off0001339b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1