Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b7dda634af91629…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9e420177f289d1463fcbeb79d930c6b7 SHA-1: 82c6accd793af42405e21ce3f91586613e7257b1 SHA-256: 5b7dda634af91629f39e2a86b043659faf90b8b29466feef58397c3934556748
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210609_114356.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607499501473d---99802141948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nd8opli2hnfj1n7u8f28huviv3/81349309886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/gimubidajajibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/80037226171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/sirigugabagavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/tuwejepawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43096b3ec3d42bd38e422dad1dd2b02d/fixipetikamerapovusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1422ceir2n442553ou87joqsg/kopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/nixiloxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8asf0k08377bscmsnhvfuih97/papatatewomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11424845849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mansstoo93p0dp0c7l7dm4fnuc/nixokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807f15e4e8d---gagarozufuwufevesukagudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d713eb225---bepitodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/nupusamemonavibule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/29750311563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brge04k22bhbbckenuj9vuejcb/kunonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/81242390430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/15560355209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc7f8e83b---17014501533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/sugoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/goxobuderedepugexalepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e3940c3b2e---51330539551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=stand+me+by+doraemonPDF 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_off000113bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BD 22984 bytes
SHA-256: eaac19a6d0bf3e0fcf1f4bb124c3ad59ff3cdaf889c3c689691d7d0ea452b39b
font_01_sfnt_off00015017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15017 10432 bytes
SHA-256: d56da56bf6c55565bf90f5cd52629a6c2a5f7a4da22620fb393e74c0fe17fdda
font_02_sfnt_off000167bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1