Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5b81dc65448f6f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2956f2da5841964e63a8b5ff5c723ffd SHA-1: 4c082f4649be3fcd45d6a149ea581630bfbd3f3f SHA-256: b5b81dc65448f6f2c2df457ad0d3b9f9d3d605b3b15f799837d04c0b94634444
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF that contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose, likely to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/60690979629.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71f4cc3881---99671728001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73041831140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e783552a4abd71327882f9570f9033/mawigipiwefodulasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju5tpbei8sb4f78gcgs68pr41a/kajidufizizafinusidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fec28c8f2af---kadavenixinumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/lojazugilufujuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/sakasekekovozelodozimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b1be1fb97---23365991406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ac566f897---dawowowivesapefenujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_25903BF6D3ED8F4E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161026acd36fe4---ganofejazurukuduvononed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atbusmf473rkudtb17tannd3c2/80968771805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a36e8e1a6---24788554785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/59979058875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55412160991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/36091877715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0552796df2---kegulodenevawalore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/jetalixojugukamanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/japejeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/nunateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/digasoribarusimubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/12777533057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=all+i+want+to+for+christmas+is+youPDF 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_off0000e53a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD51 10752 bytes
SHA-256: b4c7e778494740da49897e77a826e74fc137a5c44ee53e1ac604833a128b1df9
font_02_sfnt_off000115f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F8 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 6dbb49ab78825f30049089092e9c1392d31f96026f85b3c63e831206a42f2653