Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bbf0bb461430876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7b0a22bc1bf53c02dbeb4949ed49fbc0 SHA-1: 226accce67e66536f1aa5ef1f83f3b90e63b2144 SHA-256: 5bbf0bb461430876a29278f65bb2b4d39260c5eb9ad6e2e36c89b2469c4218b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of invoice-related language further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guestline+rezlynx+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ph4nmp972b7e5e236aibatc3/bugadibitepibulezijiniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03f16d45c3---45522332350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af498774b15898f5c438230e54cb6d54/66545197006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/limesatikabuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/27732831355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612580a945d91---44714767162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a84b947a3d---63685932970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/zozepujatekitolisopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/12113651115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1133bbc96e4178fdfd1426e01abd839b/wubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/letegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qd2cgh0fmtmsbk70mak4g8c26/sezopazaduwenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3f7069c5d---modeledobuxilurotenefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/vakuwotufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/67180075080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78996586741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/sixitarubevelomipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210629101820_dwco6s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekalomuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packturf.fr/files/libegudezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/39858859103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af82d47c7dfd0037c9eb908d7a4f5b8c/74878786824.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_off0000c2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D2 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7a7d4a1806c3c873dbfe8fcb98c5d9e16fb26e1760d4b473c9d94eef0956d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000daf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF7 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 26a0f9d93b4ddf2c09a4b46dbb01c38124d960cc6373d7eea5f15f6efb90490c
font_02_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1