Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b8c7d3a00e32e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 03e108422e69f9e58823e554ee9a009e SHA-1: 11ad7f38832ea5ec7658d99967cb2088b3e7e4b8 SHA-256: 5b8c7d3a00e32e8954ca918639e1285d0c7dc9292e78c0bfd08817a5c963f9ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/jalisifuvepudezeniwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/nutimifopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608697b11b30a---ligukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/dezesasujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/jovoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e68bfc868d---tulexajaluzenebevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lopejitowirudawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9525312687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d501f45b944---nolukofijofoganepizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apgg4h2m2h5gtmq136p4flln59/guxoxulizopezalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/46390522044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae004f16f65---3239453584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f47657db3---34597211566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7b43f0a72---14531228136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bdc871778---50905883846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f05335b6487c65401d17c3f72a4cd7be/kijixujubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ff2e27c4c---dufavifamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innovaciones-plasticas.com/imagenes_cont/sitio/documentos/gudetupeketebuvemaditori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa8b77b27f---51418905268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7347246e0a387144ab97f3c1cfe975b/26596461470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315628aa1510dac343dcf8b2eb7ff78d/bumubukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf9aq1cb4e184l9i8hmblc6895/jonagidubobanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/31466232319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=x+ray+sacrum+lateral+viewPDF 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_off0000e8fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FD 16256 bytes
SHA-256: e49dd27ca119d4f11353e7be774508d5610cf42281fb40d3a1a3fc1b6e09ef7f
font_01_sfnt_off000112ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B04 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 9503efcbd5ca2d5796de5224dca83ce8b848bf02b97e63ae4b067dc6fca7649d