Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5ddc175554c125f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-05-15 07:15:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6ea1336340d085435f96e1955c39b2f1 SHA-1: 9d94865bbea93c90873a254a689d02f82ee6ea95 SHA-256: b5ddc175554c125fa5cf4b75c18fc21eac3aa5efced4faf499b891032e4806dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to 'Appareil urinaire cours infirmier pdf', a potential lure to attract students or professionals in the nursing field. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89f461e557ea5771a718063108a8ca6c/20364346206.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/59209155703.pdf
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176a51d6de4e4e80d08abc7a4a779daa/tevaribeki.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eea1d4277c---68350719707.pdf
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/sogenepomep.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adb3663f5a---15455613579.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/46308556188.pdf
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc1mndp7a9os0or6fi1202c797/jipuvena.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6767396949edcafb0342a3c4cd6ba4/25994919177.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59618ea739c7b175f69ff93e8844431a/lalodevumipopupese.pdf
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/25523142454.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd6b4bfbd7138543396d033bf5ef6103/mijasonesiwatiti.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607034bb12a12---gogudid.pdf
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pngrk4tic0m8hav5tm1v57d4i0/97776611367.pdf
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/33917782233.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=appareil+urinaire+cours+infirmier+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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d785.bin
0bbf4d587b5b63220829f2e28c2ca000f422bd57486ba01a136c32937c5c02dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD785 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a6.bin
aef7166f9c0fe8e0b9fb6eafb1425f59bbc58041ca7155364bd98cb4274aedd8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A6 10888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c65.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C65 4324 bytes