Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5386ef403dc43b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6ddbc6a6e7f0e04e7b4cd8ca6ebd65d2 SHA-1: b4cec7854a79f71f878aec0b9dcf00d83f7b038f SHA-256: b5386ef403dc43b83c3f121de3653397cbb10ef390fbed98f81375f5f293c158
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates a phishing or distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm3gv4j8m8sr2uf6d1vri8eph6/vamiza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e0aff4e2616d1758c0cf4cc7e5eeed0/zolagumekesuvekezafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3bf734add45297399159d36f2802b69/rasenabajesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4aecb3482ccda219f7f74eb03fd4002/31422259171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/vusukowamovutudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7aba81f5cb---81182691443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4hsbqt20bauia347dmraun5c6/18311451073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc5e0ae63---xaluxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bn1ieokjn87r5uj5ueca3kf5e/ludozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb38a9184c1aa0ed900027e611730dcd/14683651215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609831d03807a---wigiteruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df98e0fb47---79862074616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/32507146822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995fa7c8297---gijeranotefuwosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed466df098---vuvazowuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/25609814658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6999268d6---13937213164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/buzoferiwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/74492528688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c78b94654---livijuxekafegijusebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/19346873104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88efdf53ae31a3824aa2f2aea7731216/saforulevuzevonamepajesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cb2848413---metepitabigatedapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazubomizuguvutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481780bca97223d97a447279626e43da/fifunegotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=kick+the+can+down+the+roadPDF 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_off00014e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E02 18024 bytes
SHA-256: dc8aa36add942f382327d880acb4acb43031a962c7df823bd2ca49eafa8f8e36
font_01_sfnt_off00017cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001950e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1950E 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9f4d2094af3b884f85c86b1c1e474d6a9946775eff26f94e712c26d5f843de