Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fbb08d25b63cd0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ce4949877cd35185fa89065162debb61 SHA-1: 915442d3487dd59ffde10957340312c9d3609ae1 SHA-256: 5fbb08d25b63cd0e80a41924ed24eed91aee096097d65fd5857b8f9af7c368c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings point to a malicious document designed to exploit user trust.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/lobokunujesisarivurup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab359124b4af910805e99ead3f52ce2a/79084542420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11320836850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/66624498550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/67728198436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/30355049669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/66909161931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd6341fffc---99992035718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f46e09262f---28637275654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb7be0dc2743bedc61d0c8d8af24e08/70788072653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/24834895248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12084501736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyfinz.com/userfiles/files/37874245415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/rugurenetokagajijiribeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608464b9c2752---voromedumezusipedulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4v3beu7eu5lk1ktdqg479q8h42/jububilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9lb9nrb50pdmvllo7ih304qs4/69278407709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/28991244719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa36b0ea555---82483658872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f0e6e9381---94763660494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/96068007777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4bn6l9qcvhaj3bench1fooag8/zudodovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/19169259260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/94757589471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=importancia+de+los+glucolipidos+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_off0000b889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB889 11012 bytes
SHA-256: c2e98baae27a04cab4155ddd57ee49ac2b5bfa3ac1e3110856d5fbc8c12ae7ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FA 15560 bytes
SHA-256: 9a95262d63f88464858963e5a85066a2d44e82fe41138f38f43b954d98c4afd0