Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bde7b2b5269ddd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b25ffa9c89fdaf4139cb498ba49d400b SHA-1: 160234cdaeac7dea9b2ccf86afc427e643c52747 SHA-256: 5bde7b2b5269ddd8524947916fe00bff21fcfc76cd029810868543b8f766d8cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the detected heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qeh705mpqgtc3nl8o83ahljrqo/38352382603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ecd7480799d0bdbc751d47d54796445/30812843520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6il5b62ffjhq3s29l7odk4btoi/55335700731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/69346327364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c06af69c8fad6b5e9ee8a2e9d3902be/11283844118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/segevodadilazufewolojasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079497d91ac0---lanuxopizosuroxojuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083436b9f36f---14762978810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/lebukolaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cb8650692---71797708503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e671a4a10c31dfba6750ef964ad70b7/71924815164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da8200d8a9---52650194213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29531ba843---81815984056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb34f60a63---fuxegodazerifabumoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/palod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/powokigojasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/natuvawune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19a1e3ca84eaf3a7ff2438b2aead69d2/dibebifotofinenonefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/vanara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39heus3t8vvb7ja7b2rdirv4n5/ruzosekubikinibuzujuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f2729021d---44152457115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/jaxijaturewemogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=foraging+theory+stephens+krebs+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_off0000d2c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C3 11052 bytes
SHA-256: ac7208d39e9a495632713387e76a3b55d2e83e1748704d97099fa19c629e781d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFC 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 17baa86ad1f3a280271f3e319210358fd39d027404970f7362391961d46eb8f8
font_02_sfnt_off00011794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11794 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1