Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5874e46d02c95a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3f0cb75562c24835506246d52acc2f0c SHA-1: ba67d32f9f123cc8d0a0f0500a8f792568e37b48 SHA-256: b5874e46d02c95a01bc03da1392b7c50844670ebd6beb0713cdc721cc5a79954
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple compromised domains and link farm characteristics strongly supports a phishing or malicious redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9844

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://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltvddov6c6uk9crdbgj3h7jt72/7181493557.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259d3c5f5b0a2ccf95f5e444514f7576/16884937827.pdf
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/kivukekesaf.pdf
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/tanumejiwe.pdf
    • http://www.vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosofuxufafanevigalisib.pdf
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/penamagu.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/sodirodesegivimu.pdf
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents/files/rosepepewiwino.pdf
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofatag.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3846df3cf8c47feb0c60e06a0d3eba/rumurifitus.pdf
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/tuwixelulir.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373670990cf---valenotunimajelafitiki.pdf
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1a6b7ddce---getefizukomiwuleridetune.pdf
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/54515987418.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d278e68792b911137d60b20d93b4562e/begifenoxonemasez.pdf
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15917944517.pdf
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/dariperafelilojinusiba.pdf
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/77422318459.pdf
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/70421170079.pdf
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/26549735497.pdf
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/zexojid.pdf
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/kuvupakiperidadekipesimaj.pdf
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/73040852004.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137104d6acf4---savodukamopetor.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-07/images/files/71103066938.pdf
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/zufolor.pdf
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210906230106_zux120.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=new+american+streamline+destinations+teacher+book+pdf+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc07.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC07 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e419.bin
d2de019befa3d2cd68067dbeb172a73a7e2d4449d99e2be23881b4e2cd188bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE419 17944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111ce.bin
f5c49d7753f7eb847dfc0df9a583cbba08009fecd5461bf6a9c2568c854c07a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CE 11180 bytes