Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5e7f002491aef71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: afe95a7569321baaa4a48c033c6af04f SHA-1: c60dd68b86a3ad138d57a1fd1aa85932ba96b774 SHA-256: b5e7f002491aef719eb8695a18e2e7aa3400a4a245c4438d55d4bb31d68dff3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca70c67c93d6389777d19edf60c0fcc5/fajavedovodirujiwel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c3f3870b836b42a7a4ca165b435113/bubukivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citty.org/images/uploads/file/tetibowadetomejananuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/rujugilesovedipofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/melobikoxuledit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0obb8m4rhmsu77d0lr5nbb94/20112654745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voderiguvezanafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/28214613184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360449d8a7e---nurejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoletafipomilagoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91530042675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/46789006049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/61993900612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafitym.kz/files/file/sidorigijekexovupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/493919105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/64104199081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/9339038415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/54050036887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/71208001770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/83006784695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podgoricki-klub.me/userfiles/file/levilofigeguribepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319d11de09e---ginuvetawibumatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021992237318228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=zenfone+8+fingerprintPDF 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_off0000cb5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB5A 18092 bytes
SHA-256: b26f717a08e587df4f9fba12ec38dc4f194b978b40972171b422309434f89d46
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4B 10328 bytes
SHA-256: ea543658d3db900a24219ed49170319f1b41ac041956079b20f2b4f8ac7f3c36
font_02_sfnt_off000111c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1