Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5a25095c39e621d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 23:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 47c8ef73a52e755cca09c553c0cfb1dd SHA-1: 368ecdcd16ac4736f58b0bc9c9a82601d90f6a54 SHA-256: b5a25095c39e621d4c7b01b23db0d7cf8031010d17def5df6908f90ee1879b03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or SEO poisoning attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852c897447f---zudebonozavajebijuzif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b848be8dd4---tepewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qor49pmegk4l02e48a2d11vu18/94171803996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/xibuvevuloxinireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59ebdf0619---32547683925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8569cf0b84cc9cc7ec4f6e6c11a8f00e/xedaxoguxitevesolupobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/zojuruvinatarepamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f0d813153c36124f91388f7ec2e1e2/80589142764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/35277049402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889e1d265f2---85356863133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/59924632878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72cead558a3d254b2b84967d9c35da4/29707649730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29271106636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdb1a8bb05---puxutaxutason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc28eae6c5---pipewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliaresancarlotrieste.it/file/lamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/61722259382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/79085828865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb75b8084e55608f82d1b79a2904bf2/revumofodekemuzaruvejefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092712ce29f8---xobovevabuganuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vbcrag3one0u9q88m7ifj17b1/wikubavatupagejuvekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/wuxabeguvorugofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/zexanuziderozitera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/bixino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83366083510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=10.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+f%C4%B1k%C4%B1h+ders+kitab%C4%B1+cevaplar%C4%B1+2020PDF 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_off0000ce20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE632 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 50ccf56be7d882d9ea0e71eb30dc325237ad5dda83a0b50c0ee5f90bc8f330e4
font_02_sfnt_off000112e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E3 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 0f1f7700dafe7a9c7a1c1cfafc8600a666934115389401781d3aea73477f65d1