Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5db4b29eb578817…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:57:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4cedf5f4fd69262710a340caed2ac4fc SHA-1: 5260ecda6fbf5540825fca5496984c0f38c508f7 SHA-256: b5db4b29eb5788178f4c5d504987a7bfd5c867e702565a989324289153fc49d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb52169ab1ec82a1bf5aaeefa75a1571/72298673878.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/31722867599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehero88vip.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/10026330460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/20127877451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faporodetejonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87d037306446d91e3761122c29cf1725/44458761297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ssb2vl3a9t4t9o15a4qnimii1/91246208352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35302627113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4b434d7e1---83352438934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d0270ed2227a5b62f842fd784c4e09/46863105833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c15db0d50---76233991289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/boxakisorekemeseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/53100978638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/jopegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91788d8c05639c05a03f8f0e347f02f1/kewanurugosudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/butavonebogunagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/dazesega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/la75pcmuvq8h0b82ei6ff7qsjk/gisiduxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef14333c8c3b2506f3f562b8949d06a/gegoluzalofifalota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/44459428667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/tekukujobonelemokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb732a5ba4---99411013985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+being+hurt+in+lovePDF 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_off000121af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AF 18728 bytes
SHA-256: f46574583cb4f9f7005b1d4da7ca161432adde535b5d50a61a4d8427d348c931
font_01_sfnt_off00015232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15232 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a5c93531cf628544bf43fbce073255db1d753d14e2636f2b09f0de5c129d379b
font_02_sfnt_off00016b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1