Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bbc86eaa51eeca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f6b6a38aec55eb6b7bfebe05ab959bd6 SHA-1: 61bff6318d17fba550e36cc8dc60146bd2727b5e SHA-256: 5bbc86eaa51eeca735c98c9afbe05d20b8817d2ee6cdeb48839af653a0c4d3d9
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, indicating it likely contains malicious content. Heuristics identify it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous distinct hosts and links pointing to PDF files. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbd8b50316---tujuluzira.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d87aaba42bdb37faf45539f9911a900/rejorulawasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b028f1d66c0929a230141a7a04c49f4e/57711144128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c323bf4971b---83511352484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/gipalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a431988506f1571008f78b17c41bb46d/rutaboxigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/vokuxovanokibofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9732f95a51661823cab615e148b4f543/jaruzoxanozubixojunuriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdsj44v8c71dblri2keqtjp37/26913946620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/jejidosufanujofarunisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/79916523254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c897edcf---sixugosivodawimeriwipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09aa41e97b---80025302897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/27994525948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/34466149339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7tlp3c23d2kd26i1ios1d7qe0/wiropajuvefamesajuxubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/mifukunafogitido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d981d2cc1d4c9fb1f6a3227e25841b8/bovomelelasiwizefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac82ed6e8bf---90456813320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1782b399a---nelenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ur1abd2qk53n15qkt02d1tcb2/63501469165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf0af8694932addc60504e48a5c3951/jivunowuduzetaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/67711473651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae00bd7bb2---30611615828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=book+quiz+answersPDF 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_off0000f1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CD 17876 bytes
SHA-256: a744ac39db2f5db81a5ed22f78d8c4bfccbeb9292de0908083fd76d5ba139b24
font_01_sfnt_off000120ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13916 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 03856a26d7a3e146ce71335314d33325941e67892cb0db76de409d8a79368634