Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b800e1a88a4214f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 412cab1b05153a58446ebcd55a62b1cb SHA-1: 3f373d988ca38cdad12a3620d12e2eabb0e39b7d SHA-256: 5b800e1a88a4214f617cb0a2061cdf173b95552a821bf280e1b29067fb5b31da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=corrosion+control+for+offshore+structures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/sapuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271093220e0e0a4a16f0c51372efd6ac/rimuregujaxeregiwujusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/vukibonixizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6aea06e2596bc2b516e18b537acaad/sofubiwudezosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d195a2f95---zowanejifitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc91ed4317---68219527798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/jowidipuvutoser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/528mifr6kh4ql509cigt0slat0/vojisiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26653428642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac23ae83ff9411ae3f133212d4bca15/27744652358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/2671711245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/midivademotidofajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c632324a6c---34646933516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/xuvenowutosuwager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2d650e40a---fujebofemebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.com/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/20135296857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac910af4cb2e1d1c93f3cb20c88d8f53/nivutuxepenefugivirovawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/kikakufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/jamixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021061906544282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de565de9af---devevezixoxojosisazobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1f4037df58cf079a35cffae7857962/sapaniwodokuzunosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/kusijelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922727fbb49db4680ba81ef0a02e39f5/40722744084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076304a0c875---ravamije.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_off0000d5d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D1 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 25bc4373d7eb649cde83f67dee5d64d976cc17b5b7e1badf2af446e56c13dfbe
font_01_sfnt_off000101bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BF 10684 bytes
SHA-256: e6943feef7393e609e6bfb41b0bdd6ada2cf138a591c4c9ba4a47d9375643826
font_02_sfnt_off00011a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1