Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5a5a01fca4e59ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:06:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 454fea1f0c4d631d1c51a23953dce77c SHA-1: c47ec230b3617dd6bb3c041a0cc2d042acadaf0d SHA-256: b5a5a01fca4e59acec00b037d62a0de7ea511c9e818d50a741887a4e08749ae6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or phishing lures. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+and+the+singer+of+apollo+read+online+free
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/207534486.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/kafuzufunifa.pdf
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1631353648.pdf
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/nojepovodudenivilaja.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf6e601104---bidivawirinazulopapamavu.pdf
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/163129191611627260152.pdf
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/89740016284.pdf
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/rurujuvebiwo.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv5hco76gahatanmq12i2p5pjc/64043930182.pdf
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/38326944536.pdf
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/ledozur.pdf
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58171726794.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f33885d00---97489070486.pdf
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/tuzomelomorugejatuzewivaz.pdf
    • http://sichera.eu/userfiles/files/muratoziwuxegamidi.pdf
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17178043095.pdf
    • https://kujainspectors.com/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/najigij.pdf
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/mikezipa.pdf
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/98616214574.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/jepufapilenezesulilupej.pdf
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/ririvupuladebewud.pdf
    • http://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/49266118078.pdf
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/dogexubom.pdf
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/35778753596.pdf
    • 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_off0000b799.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB799 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfab.bin
f17ccb1ed4aca9ee4638026d90278071530259c20b6f8d919a8949110a212559
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFAB 17104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc38.bin
016737953c616ccb1927baef69870f9f7a5d3e028761a4bbcf4adb0667f9ec33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC38 11236 bytes