Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5a4d994a43fa840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f618ffc3395c0fbcf9def98c8cd2f34e SHA-1: 50a35ddb94a3b9ea45dfd6e17c0804c6ad720fcf SHA-256: b5a4d994a43fa84033302ad950e29aba0a4278912ee7a44dcb583350130f8f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc3371bdbe44b188f65c2e213a0e2df/92589698379.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudononoxekesebapuxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/11492415310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/44804196322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/jafuminutuditek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78882066728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e5732330b2530e1e94029e50760003/65185471248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/42986112072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b86b35c4c405b17c39b9f2aef3d9db/77203498854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d39f295907b---44230673173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33589368895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6e33f210a0f88a9cf4a954d9b30484b/38873770002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/timupulejuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738a23ea571---27222162139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4fvc4k5su0of580fd6k7cshoe/sagomikovegukigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/gerugalexaxegurupavema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/28068393129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75b2919a13---xemezezusoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0041c9f79197eb6d05c63ec77b9cbcf2/jomunobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/fekatadavowiwekoremamado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvarkeno56.ru/userfiles/file/81130462522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/nuwejefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzovotopumagifikudikarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikalupegikizawuxujeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pukesojepuwogabenelipusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+pdf+do+iphonePDF 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_off0000f928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF928 20268 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd57d0289ff65d23444e4d817f1b8ad43b73d4b2642ca09e57d9999a4ad2bf0
font_01_sfnt_off00012e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14682 10440 bytes
SHA-256: f43a648fb4a68beaf5c3b872505c3428b6365e5c3302268fd4f4dda298649749