Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bd82f809ed20692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:38:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5fa023d9b8cfb8507d5ce542c6e04cc9 SHA-1: 9cb42143abb23d9d394d0ef4325e02a1add132f2 SHA-256: 5bd82f809ed206925884a4bcb229f1c5083f33359075373fa72ca870b6594c8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the true destination and evade detection. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2abc030e39---19428168522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/83605444193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/moturexukejigigowigapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7oli4v8h70atdnf07nj7ppthf0/97176308181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/74243410059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf86836df18ee0c33bb52fba670756e/fiboposamuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075658e45058---xotijasixilereka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79205674345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/95659566386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1f94ad8442394b27421bf785f38f18/fubivelujagatiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6b481a0b3e---xobepobolozeduvelagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgjqmr.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951828441070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frigosztufi.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kixokumovuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161294f17a1e47---xoditezidito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hei0qinms3h2tm6jmn96fqpja3/datenepebivudilukisafopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/216agulstja14m0mi11qauj61n/nelaluweboroburekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34520196422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harryfok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41857953719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/zogejivevibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/kagaradafaxijixuludenuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e1cjful2405n1rn75h7k002k/1064504329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sleepthai.com/piceditor/file/18425294585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/wofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/34313218137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be475a274cf6a8daa37bef904b398eb/38370875428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=textual+criticism+of+the+hebrew+bible+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_off0000cb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB33 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 4897c29e229d4ccd5d13fcc0d9652d9c7ec61ad25f4dd688b5f8ab5eb00818c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11353 11172 bytes
SHA-256: dc837060059d5e54f83f2c5334d5aac89d238176a1819953475389f1e43fddd0