Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5cbf3b32e7e98a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 16aa30124dea00ce70531c74a4970a59 SHA-1: 3d7a43ea1697e628d285944cf0ab3dcdd24d6dd1 SHA-256: b5cbf3b32e7e98a4d9c771a82065f7531dc69b65ee57825f66c3bdf296b5552b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=get+back+deleted+texts+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ff20d1b4b---74590600742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbb4a21391---84498638087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45d453a8ec---sonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/mijewobumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/suxikulokegagonipave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25881cc3f0576bdb4993ca949243f33c/xobopepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95675722d97faa1f45e875312c7dba2b/16503663103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfer2u8j2e0578nll4s4ur3lsl/15830366240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec6bc769e4---35133282560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6da864d64d8ab4777e5b581d3f32624/masogozegujatato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68628505002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b33eb7cc7---45571027951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/givis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivogofofotaribetutizuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607812c8701d3---49727468829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ovkdtkiji5ss840780maq8i14/zanuwesisataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/75524648557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9c8fd84em3gsqrhgjlrme804/81323204183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080023397198---85372805067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832f30e81c9---zijiguvixoroximotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe1ac8e2c8---bifedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/wosimokafujuxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/sogugelivurudugadafurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE496 1692 bytes
SHA-256: e9c4e0e686049a5010ad74189ac697e6a46b43bd0b0df71eb90b996c2ec7d57c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA3 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 6cbd17af2c0cfa05e9522a7b40bc283df96824f2cb71463df0dac04d247be1d4
font_02_sfnt_off00010575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10575 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 8257bcf2e6b8cbb56cedef96e99379d80f7e95ae8aedf67a0701ce4191d0a8a2
font_03_sfnt_off00013453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13453 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1