Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb4f939a177c6fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0a42760f2631e0d241294548e2ffa574 SHA-1: 955ce222ec590cce88a06f4991b87ab83f914160 SHA-256: 5bb4f939a177c6fa9259a896ef76eced8292c542eeeadf920751d920ea0ebd7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document's primary function is to redirect users to malicious external sites.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=de+dana+dan+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/bejanixipozopiliveguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437728a1fd9---9485603359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/likuledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/timin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/feloxudemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0h8dqteea9sfe5ig2kq1vdelm/wogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/62094177329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekipojosoworasujoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/43213171333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87660068915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38a5dc3f0625e4b5720140eb3515c77/mumuvomurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egyptlance.com/userfiles/file/riteruvavemamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/noxasidejebojovisuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371c232a7fa---titipiwazusitazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/1222082904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/78234019647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcasatenovo.it/userfiles/files/93591113380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunilonetodosizuxemobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/kukodebulisemezupelikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/14505252963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/78138579599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonoriliken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theorientgarden.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/kuzawolosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zekoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/74352683911.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_off0000cf0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE721 10316 bytes
SHA-256: f8dc7340672ba5cf65972b939ceae6fd1c375ad8501a5d21511e066dbc6e49df
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 18808 bytes
SHA-256: f7ab85d6d7a0cee3157b5a8f33829d2168b6aa4ae74db1516e81c2aa73f912bf