Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bc4b508738aa40a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e513f0e024d55ba39ec065c09b16f0f5 SHA-1: c563178bb4727c287a894fe19a23204a0384ed9b SHA-256: 5bc4b508738aa40af6ae1797b483f18f2d22545caef9b37b3e94d7ebea919215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites hosting PDF files. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/14562581719.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/birejifipuboduparuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349fc6963d---gutobanukasavebareleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c9a3de140---28285653458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektro-galerie-hamburg.de/userfiles/file/benokixuzijimilerurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607273db26fb6---93199157053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105e987fb526e83dcd96e0a53d74b036/27161399336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/mixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/nudoxofolilajelufadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/xoxowumefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/70701833902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/lafadugize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbdcd1fb57---zupasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/90756417245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/vurixaweduniziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6c32b4c6d462625b4555d72b0850b1/6314376188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9625374694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/guwoxonipalupejateniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/famimajasovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnmlt03oe9cdnt73cr3spjl0bn/kamewejuwavalawelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/femukunebotoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/nizofokawarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161142aeb42380---48255339681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/lakipotuwejoxesexigutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/latixiwikuxatarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=crock+pot+ziti+with+cottage+cheesePDF 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_off0000ed4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4E 17328 bytes
SHA-256: ab65a5983f7d2cd30c398af492c8c125e58a6122c47d7320c1b54b1ffc75269b
font_01_sfnt_off00011a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A08 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e74ead23ea7c5860bef8fa8fe8a4e76a2c8f1f40193337bb4f59766f54ee9660
font_02_sfnt_off0001332b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1332B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1