Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b79b7dbf1204a35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 13:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 08e33b4e4cd38c585430a471ca29ca2a SHA-1: 4b0e15067f55dd05da28952351fb07fd5494f8cc SHA-256: 5b79b7dbf1204a354d493a809ca157a5ed964011b2ef6f4093e6d415f2d9da1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+kelly+dominique PDF link annotation
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/vinoratigajepedefikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/8298593696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20211003_074237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/pojomutoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/54303497398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yansyuan.com/UserFiles/images/files/gatede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/13604717384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/noredabebarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/juvanupixumenadobanefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614479a20a1ba---titukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/pudirupibosazatuxexenezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210926093133145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5c23191a02d0d5ca6216796f2e235a/20307247321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/zanobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55274542578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gisikisogalipokejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/jopebipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/zadobesebezesitifujezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148bb195b702---92378978138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614273016c98e---21855452128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/bujaxenajejetusime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/zisorobena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufopedomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j1tklba1fh5vpnsc3m8gv9u1n/6178595237.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_off0000b26e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB26E 10380 bytes
SHA-256: e1d4f70bb629b6cecb8995f9387185820900a0425688f400f9df1bd8661c1752
font_01_sfnt_off0000c999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC999 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AB 14644 bytes
SHA-256: bd9c7b5c9ab4d49690464b21c2045e72873bacb6181d2941c5a5fb30ce04d2f4