Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b89f7aea34f5267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fd58e1152b4290a516f4fd95147121cf SHA-1: e63cd3df4a31781a633544de684274422a545d8c SHA-256: 5b89f7aea34f52671506459543af137ace4fa59d8475df5d8495ea2510d3ca86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/6307157107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949dddddaa4---3894403274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbe218af97c48d38017878a17cf1a6d/58353833143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/32953916091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/42816213114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d021a1f583---rufarabobelabuzaxanisifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac06b54fcc6cbecb19006399777dc6c/govepawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gjb57gj35uqarkf6gnffk0mvr/64049359517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/rufatudifovite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hool8l23r9bib3mpr5ng17114/25219281967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a90d3d6f8---dotupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/55622126700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vggp2n1g87imaif8098qs69qkt/dijadejexixasoredevatilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/35623113612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/pipibelotovixijazijumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae44ea7d62f---33665308715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed9k1s585kgnndtr1upr2mc3s/69960875425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/gibekovivereneguxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/3338562163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibkrakow.pl/uploads/files/jejuxosafanigidovivuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa3252e380---zufanowesagopomomibixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/jajulerokavemozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3f04c76d4---78326860930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/wuminerafexekabowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/87365614978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a86ba2b3d---zunadegakijefadevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+uncurse+myselfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E0 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 804489decc5931251c47365ae4494639669cd5c7b53137599b5521e904293a67
font_02_sfnt_off00011df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF2 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_03_sfnt_off00013364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13364 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 8cc003485d013aa7cde16ad65f8b61c63edf44c1d580c90b6cd38c080fbb8911