Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb916c3abc21958…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2a95145738e4d751493e0caa97082cfb SHA-1: 2c09df8ae614755d7fa6dc6e15bf69b28da2c2d6 SHA-256: 5bb916c3abc21958137bd760c8d2d0242ea3429f2ca5d05b2454f12b20dc7416
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or phishing. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates this behavior, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/jeterawoxujenixapisixigok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c17c0a815---6045096328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/80598333096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/kujidoremodebudapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/61141349002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955097b49b82a2e9bd5fad94f7a8a230/foletererilonuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/xilitore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607369a1b5303---87284449943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdcf2396d7---24649153737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/fotuparimesagawugixufome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f373a553d76cac71a36b2d88c212dd4c/69914152464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607035e04f3e0---lajedipamolonexipiwumafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xesimomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/jamoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/31291069059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846da7945a9---210744665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7dd8e4a4719b4a04d7f2a83d01f1bd/nilumamimexabarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e512a2977---7854257674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents/files/77623001323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///gajiziboxuredojatirivoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9800960b65---tizufaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdin556pfe94r72salh945hc9u/vevizizisuxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bc4ab1aa5---2774749787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/zagokikopegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609410e1a69fd---kebosozilixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=medellin+metro+map+pdfPDF 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_off0000c87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC87E 17440 bytes
SHA-256: a18372ff6bf17e4e3e8da4160522c774c9e282e73bd5eebdaee15850a1d5acaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF549 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 22901b2b8b248dcdd05c0bbb1ce3d45a1bd46fc328c44f0856979e25a7477997
font_02_sfnt_off00010cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1