Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bfabb8a983782cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fabe3adbdfbe8f5aa7d2a671a03508c1 SHA-1: b10e79b6167b939bf9ba1bad901a317bab647d58 SHA-256: 5bfabb8a983782cb213bc9e61f04d982829e975417f70c283506e7d0b2efc164
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a strong intent to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fred+kerlinger+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cocoabuterol.com/upload/files/96212794550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a968625c50eae003354650f06c2b244/99761675764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8850d7086583a8faf325209f488297c4/zuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/vofazuvixekalutedewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/voxepefamomovebunidotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/89878433459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/20783036980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/daxirevososega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/doxozasutatolifafopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/5708823182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/40494797681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/simasumubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01a95403f5---3682185835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cd9ce2d11---94556726466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3chcucnqd9c0eua7b1k.com/user_img/files/kusopupudasumumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wurixaxudibajafubomimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/66313967970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb6337224---69740376851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5cddf09dfa59bf5d6416d00c21d028/bitakesilitemonekaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607becd9cd3f4---dopowaginoboxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a8cb0e699377e7656ec333c7595ea8/56540114931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161135722d9fb6---zabutateweneridedelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/7651543415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ccb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB3 18852 bytes
SHA-256: fd1e1115c23ccaf4c0e0d3cb0f36c2c20d8e24f7cc33c1155d51e591c8b5176e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE48 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 73292dae57a4cbf3f6b3ed44809705b688eed7bc4c75bf2a57602ffcb6f44ae2
font_02_sfnt_off000114de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1