Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fbdcdc76573d362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-17 13:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 87bd5a82eddbac96fd1d16329d8c5b1d SHA-1: 9559dc9e657b51d5d425f51d481ecd2f706ad7c1 SHA-256: 5fbdcdc76573d3620bd6c8b028c91466ca51659b340d6b1a8ac594ceb41b8225
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to "Tamil mp3 a to z", suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+mp3+a+to+z PDF link annotation
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705ba1df0bc---50516709233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794474af9d6---67126810435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c91df92534---71308891678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d46331ba44884d58a8928667b5e61ee/xisexezibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e844507edc---52101139402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv7r8tcmsf78pv7r0cslavuo45/22121931559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5024bdf9a2c754aeefed7a699fa7c2cd/wazenijugozafaruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2cc5a82ac---rimuvifolafoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/delewuvevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36d2ac304---60248333216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/kekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7790b75e07ca63f217cce896c931c200/96683314480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083604c7b385---82434766462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ckqlsirpsvr6iicrllsc5ca5/29641215297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb1818a5a---86006828326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c036c2ddc6d---pogotobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE86 3028 bytes
SHA-256: d2e42171be270de83f5658f6c7a6c75206bd35c819eeb91cb404b81457701e5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF950 4856 bytes
SHA-256: f64b205c5193550d541cb5a19467bdd729c778e7eac8779d77cfffd66081f6db
font_02_sfnt_off000109c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C8 3768 bytes
SHA-256: e8593eef1eb52cd11ecc3e0cf12520726e91280b7079b812d718111de8b21a84
font_03_sfnt_off000117c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C8 4500 bytes
SHA-256: 93d624f3dec2d796378fd01df09728cf04fea265915a9392eaec7f0df8d2325b
font_04_sfnt_off00012884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12884 11872 bytes
SHA-256: db96e4f844ed7eea6d79a5f65e4cd84958a97501499566046373b11163ea4c9e
font_05_sfnt_off0001507d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1507D 16568 bytes
SHA-256: 1c7e512dc504595eaa6ca89c254af23947c4808f841e935a0b0264b53dc622df
font_06_sfnt_off00016741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16741 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 5aabd94c8855d577736a383bccd7c00796044639a886e73240eb024fc725b977