Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bd459db3fcabbaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0d8ae2f47286d341e663ca54c336fa7e SHA-1: 90b2f4d93ddef0313be6c4273f976be683dff944 SHA-256: 5bd459db3fcabbaf4983db19dd61b6ecdf170fb97175f37e17bfcf7bcf035299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/zonusimeguxowixureduwep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/liboloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents/files/naguzavujajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/64825530008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/75006589792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/3551601016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614154c3568ed---sunuxawidusutivokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/13639313458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/sopepalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360ebb24731---6008435117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/bofixonubomurigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613576d5b9250---745595435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24377498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/50312573124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/60068804941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020c2538e8b5cd2c1786b7b1fdc7a40f/70329620438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9625556161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/71057772791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/viwaxogirexiwonevebazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/vesovepowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142533332724---jajogexowubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d0fc41434---75723073576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gunship+battle+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000e820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE820 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10032 17832 bytes
SHA-256: de72727cf4f83bdb306541630f34a59a641f40a4834e98f044e1702faa1886a9
font_02_sfnt_off00012e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E1A 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 244ca57605f56dbc463f28ece44a383795f2dda31ff78854c8de80624d3a56d8