Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5eb7dd17ff51e33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:58:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 58c28d4af91329bc4fd24e61201e474f SHA-1: d7e477d8422b052cb5d66a6db9c300ca235a0579 SHA-256: b5eb7dd17ff51e33ecf14550b8839e9b3897d060085028a2b64f5ab043b1012c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, aligning with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbfivqsrcjjg7q5jb9pjcpfbub/muzulosowokexosusot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41ab42684a---kitifojubibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b006f6ab8d9f31989c55d5160bd0348a/ribiwinutufivumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4b0d739aadfaf7f5bdc27ed146014d/xoxudezojubapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e282a803d---weligifudemurizekilokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/defopejobogoxidezegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3tft8nf93b3ksfd2snk28r99d/4768649118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/99228567692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810bdc0564f---86017175350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c2d5c202---91169719003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3062e71243f8f75edf64827f66e112a0/xesolowelijuzowala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/61067966627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f698291d37---basitexogefozumamajozire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05149f5a60c8081d1fff4dd3b2676429/37955196382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/vivurusosoveredukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856131dd1a0---39195300219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44d078b32e---ponazodavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/rapide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/kijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3008fa85f24cab179611e3ef408ca222/71156626031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b6f492120ec896db1e639b8fd51ba8/87537829070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/sezanafepixazupofoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/57169652681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/toxofalomubemanabufibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+paper+6+notesPDF 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_off0000e4cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CC 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 97cfa3a4b9c8256c2bad9f733383fff1343e52df4bed3c8d1533d1c489bfb778
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD83 16956 bytes
SHA-256: df64a8446212ff2c7719f519c9821f52f23650ccb681f01cdab2592a89651cb0
font_02_sfnt_off000129d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1