Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b8bb92208c8672f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-08-22 16:07:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3c45f0a03fc5edc13abc9609812df26c SHA-1: da6a2faea2b1c3ea0f36c06123611886e6c0bdf9 SHA-256: 5b8bb92208c8672fb7f9ab4604163af128f30404d1f14defde73e066bd76c1df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for distributing malicious content. The presence of a URL advertising a 'microsoft office professional plus 2019 activator kmspico' indicates a lure for users seeking software cracks, a common phishing tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+office+professional+plus+2019+activator+kmspico PDF link annotation
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e777e2a6a236c50e63759d4664aa33a/lorolikewetaramajujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/12236235449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/rudidokoxagiregawonixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/9585432691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestrasenoranm.org/clients/8/88/88a18899c67a61641ca1f7d027daa919/File/72309755006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/41074649346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusalulefetibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc2c5be039---3211694213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/porukegiwinalubepeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olkn7m6j08qdpcmhbgsgssl6mm/dogifavonopozuxibagunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/10422818750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/fowowukufuxupetuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v9qge35oim87uk47humu37h85/46964591993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/52919174842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/98405422591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/wokuzixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termocasasrl.com/file/96324428736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41cbf99093---75997218916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/defiwunapoxetefanugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64898609306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c022126fa7---dukakafatisunejulabekuta.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c953767ea4689b843c7e3943c44d41/77062842284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/xijenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/3179125394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/37577164676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1395213605.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_off0000c7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD3 11352 bytes
SHA-256: d8c347f7d2765b95a5b96c8a6e52ce8877ef97d0e1c60fa46e42e9429e589fce
font_02_sfnt_off0000fab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB2 16812 bytes
SHA-256: b4168b6159a6fe36578aa79d9c073c91bd2f674f7bcb19b0297fed52a89c1184