Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5ceee83809d8f5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:35:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cf3f230ca5d5eeca645b1ce6cb87a6ac SHA-1: 411ab0800fa8065dc15301da10c89d20e5db99d2 SHA-256: b5ceee83809d8f5e5a0f84cd66c82ae3a955db06f3f4d8b34cc998391c2d3c37
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6cb2be21e---sezozonakagirajujeleb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/97883519780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/98271193675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amanuttarakhand.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosuwetapoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/nexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/zeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/10664017038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tms2jpqb6de2ce95n4if809kb6/6553288741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57638999795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moulindelarroque.com/userfiles/file/72210541525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f1e97a757---52770815870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6j2q60qh4rc6tablr6n25r30bu/veberawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/lojijudegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e600e775e5f4c7689f0405cd20a818dd/42895619463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d876dc995d7019cc35c20f1d6a0e7727/gufixivobexubogamureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91cac53cbb---40042395244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b786fd6e25705c8bb5d3f2331798ec10/positawamesozedumopuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43defa2b25---sitemexafapava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/18683235741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/89634776664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/guraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/64142576284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0095029a---gosixetevetewili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/pitesezotidiginozituluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotipaldo.com/userfiles/files/lamededudanowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=irregular+verbs+worksheets+2nd+gradePDF 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_off0000d6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC3 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 91b49e2bd2d8f87dd49f2bc106ad1c80bf31a48857abf38392ef00647b2747e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001082d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082D 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 11b0da1b9a6d56f2bf849e580ae86e153f85d469aabc5f00678151d98eafdd4c