Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b735ff60a5215c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 46d30f38e6f4432b4917391510b5bdd8 SHA-1: d2e694e47d2c4732e0f906f366048f93f20e1575 SHA-256: 5b735ff60a5215c77623e013808ebcd96e5b79953beeda32c7f61a963499a294
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of embedded JavaScript further suggests malicious intent, likely to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+42+prime+or+composite PDF link annotation
    • http://turinimoti.com/assets/userfiles/file/nivuvovizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc4fcca70d---loril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/45260821977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/zonaxulizebizufigafebogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/67609829930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/povopefivuzasaronosugivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/7023946081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/gazitegogazudizepate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/12126794837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/rujajapelezewisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28854154196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/wovutakogufulabalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/rikalosebixebirotenonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/839d4a822bca25c5228ecd7bd8669ee0/magubuxonapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/nazivusupoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/78566051338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/sumivopegesivatebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/pavubonirabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/simiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuoitre.bacgiang.gov.vn/lib/ckfinder/files/fesubijaxakanujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/vosubawetotitisoxovape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210909151743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardiebase.com/uploads/assets/filefile/87578804031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoch-making.jp/js/upload/files/69212434071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5eafdea13---50890443844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308260a875f---tabipafikegune.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_off0000c164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC164 10372 bytes
SHA-256: fac6cc608224386a4633ef2396d2308f82861e3c4d36f6baf25a61922c71592f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F2 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 1d13f5f13bfc1289561a3d10f316db0b36c2eb899b8f55de6da0acc4821f3638
font_02_sfnt_off00010486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1