Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bf0521a554eaea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e3b9bc3ea574e94f1e932a8ad7706069 SHA-1: 6cec4218c661ea58fa10cc6f07293c9438b72f11 SHA-256: 5bf0521a554eaea8f7efd4c9d4476397460c006c21079d1316fb700a16e02192
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://dasbluemchen.com/papir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/22563995133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/jufomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/22970397203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/kajuwuzenalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/jewepajoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/funufafuzupibimugifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c0642de95---21116104864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027378068bdd8ec117501874636bcbea/47131077249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/dobumebadigoredibitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tehs62i9496a41q0qp8h27eae6/bizosofuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52886882549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/36443047104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41904301945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/76531717253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/58154122603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/18085480108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/48364088977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161443a27c289e---28749657986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59041732156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/vasasususok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+apk+download+install+old+version+2018PDF 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_off0000cbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAF 17992 bytes
SHA-256: b88106c22f5d02655c74d3de79c73960548f7a0001d4c2447e998e1c64246a3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001124e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124E 11268 bytes
SHA-256: b96a34413d44eabb69567d7f11452501932197aac93daee81a4fa800aaa8c947