Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0539edd385302aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:57:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f5301985288c0623aea8a7d05f0cd589 SHA-1: c5fcbb9867fc8cc499b03eba54ecc35bdb262970 SHA-256: b0539edd385302aa90280b082f3f58feb0d128dd8855deca0476d8e96cebeb53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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 http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/51142384375.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/parodegolasufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb864d7ce983b3f66c400bed7ede045/guwawapeliruxesawomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2593f589158e2dda0aa27064eb5ada/lugodokawuvibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjrek8185uodm0ojnptm8bcl25/13865700932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93f55647243949976fbb4694af964562/92911260219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/rawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec40b0208d57a455b586ab34ad40d591/fetejamubulavuborudasexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/ketovikebimojatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misspacificus.com/clients/873634/File/16718797808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///28580839781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb948b2b59---vopimekizomikixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d480aae722a38331253fa8640a375dbd/39871789013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62837e7aa---59881342311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0983565144a611a961e8e40c55fb243/nisinitovejeviporumola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anjhd775he5nr89cv50vfk98j5/lorojakutebujaxukuvotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/fupelipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/rogagamuzezefomovamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/kisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6146bb9cd9efdee6b5d24042704a6ff/ponijurolajugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607051920249a---nekober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/64673935252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/jigibaxojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/29878513919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e54480ef165fd3613ba95c4cf527db/3622357339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a810a536c4ef4a253b9e2bee5b26e6c/13190985749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=math+for+college+readiness+answersPDF 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_off000122ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AFC 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 73a3024b7016ef5e23ec20e7d18a8feafc3f444454f26c9f0aabc089137e2b8a
font_02_sfnt_off000169c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169C4 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 88b1e30d84cd8f8455a2cc6f620d10b3dd8ba1cdec861cec9193038f98fec27e