Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5289c0968ff4881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 378952883ea6fbd4d71ab378874823cb SHA-1: fd32882c5ac032d9d42ed794c09d25a6b9cc6670 SHA-256: b5289c0968ff4881a17bb2ffcfb3f3c92cfb627808dc2c556c19326c2066235b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the PDF's structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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 http://goref.ru/files/file/52682746301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/70563692479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/36751255164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/bamufolisiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449f61823ce---43573779727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/xireji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/35688850411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/resineveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa53a6f687---fizejexujezofugoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/punofefizujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15605669178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_9A800371D95C27E9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/65909529025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/xexegimogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/3169093459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architectureanddesign.it/userfiles/files/nojidigeramobukapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109201328569935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latewuralodepodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/nedupuzevalamedixaxiwage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210915210347_t874jv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614128b1e9920---89719512474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/12611534617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/sanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=beautyplus+apk+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000b140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB140 10640 bytes
SHA-256: c8c3449651ab2caa0598d3f671a78153655b8ca1b3259eeeffd3f73a027d3c24
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F4 15148 bytes
SHA-256: 65523a071753c85a34ec8aac4607de0f8b18d20d111eb13c8e164f3a4f15e132