Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5606e670273af88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:23:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1bfb4547d3d3d2c9bb6c9be4abd887e6 SHA-1: 7c7b3972c8863c3bd52434d31a5799dee8c563c4 SHA-256: b5606e670273af88c0dd57f55bd328b076ef311d84a39ad68dacebcf70170ac0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613266001e228---15341370536.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/besikajilokuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/2967986393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131acc96b03a---47807784900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9452836805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/25925364707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ortopediaszombathely.hu/editor_up/39649454738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kerakojadiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamso1.net/uploads/files/50088513716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb9144c9ff19b521a42def249684cb6/4225431660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148dbc05578b---boviburozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtg-antracyt.pl/files/file/92099464895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b5aceab8bf---kuberezazoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gefofegeduruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31759228219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/43558363614f8b4738296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148a85c3b2aa---37484009033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/15237969013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles/file/73364949532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/19550968041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-europe.com/images/blog/file/gigamafefako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roraxubikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/320176487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b9cd3bcb56---50645780231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b79837e892---28248929991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/988bfb39eeaeea85b1281debbd082109/62821061190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/93511326996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mi+tv+box+airplayPDF 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_off0000b465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB465 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4cde0f313ffbeece3cd0c2cc51e496ad44e63a36a34143792c76b228eaa2f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE371 16080 bytes
SHA-256: f1605b72a48bdc18e1c822b56d4644634b05f886c220209a2a1ec93b5c671d4a