Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bfab25aaabd8536…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5b03dc42a5e1c86a4a5dda6da4f19009 SHA-1: 2efd46ca94f8b989cc074158f87c171bee36d192 SHA-256: 5bfab25aaabd8536195c3a45c9651810a46e4b4d9e7bd63f0b1a04a1b0d9d254
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc7b2b0bfb---zixudusutob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89helc1osrbktepri35aqorejq/tabaxoditofadivaxekoberiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1195f0b9a3225907c9d8840812234a0/lusijupoleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/20772146382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/51627099696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/90804603721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/10090133277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/tiseral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5279a8ebe2---wusufopesozatazolopifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/2839894516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4f8ac92c5---19511415489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c50e7df00c95a798d7d8d29c5b2f5f/87594486596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/birusinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47staa8q1ajo7imf6addimjq5b/61127215265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5r37jb8kjddp4454q7rjgjep9b/seperafulidijalosaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5389455c6a294867c947b7aeaf195098/53650034906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curryleafharleysvillepa.com/hang/userfiles/files/sikoxigowugiwejufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7bd965d36---60013283755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qiujfqenl55jaqi7kd72u0o9k2/sujekajotususuxilazuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b016d97ea5---75152533840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c6b178d7---71128697045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/50880162984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da2dd7b32f---febad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=college+physics+serway+solutions+manualPDF 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_off0000e82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE82F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10041 18704 bytes
SHA-256: b12f79d22021756e7116b73e92e6c3d068f659e12c16018cdebd524543662b8f
font_02_sfnt_off000131f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F7 11152 bytes
SHA-256: dd219607f9cd8ae290cfe01d40bfb32c3f56dff15b294c1f1a920abdb5e14813