Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e1b71eed4131cff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:14:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0762741fbb86278e25bdc8e0f27236c5 SHA-1: 810b071d6540207809c82d25ba79e317807c1950 SHA-256: 5e1b71eed4131cff4ca8b519977b1ac028b0ed3280c2aa1e3eb6c4b461de1a7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de97ee5d93e2d6c67b048444d297ea1b/81095500563.pdf
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/26189342345.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608692ca00644---85048501271.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ebed5c00fdbd44e9fec6c9c1bd463e/76878034576.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fna3kq85unaipiqenhka4eafb/solowi.pdf
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/vosedurawa.pdf
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/mekiwe.pdf
    • http://diamond6ranch.com/userfiles/file/23491726363.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eec3a868b7---vikifozisuvubipu.pdf
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/73954819009.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3fektnhk4a07arm97ania1ac3/zidepe.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9136d798f---3289004955.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db2450fe8e---gixapiropum.pdf
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12609100266.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/74664294873.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d63d9d79d---godifaxorogorijifik.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf5b6c7ca8ad7819043a5157ebea1d9/diboronuroxovadosulufuzu.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df6d7f1ad4---14690299569.pdf
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/13552543573.pdf
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071294f98701---gimesebuwojusadimuge.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd85f6711b---tifal.pdf
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/reduluxitowetoj.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00927a5b15015c106f9d63c11f663515/fasedetufeja.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080708e5377f---75326717906.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4165c79e3b---bomuroxumifogaf.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd56b27044ce07036fd80a469c4ff65/jezidasataletuzojojalex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+meat+for+skewers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6af.bin
6852b8e775fc1bc92049d5234b5f78e2b2deed9a2e08024b1c8921bfe809c90a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AF 17488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000124b8.bin
ce52e832dd19930d081fc77c6cb2a0a75ce648411c21cc8f1b0a48c47f0425d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B8 10364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c53.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C53 16792 bytes