Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f222e5e13a0afa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c9a4a6cb9315739b5b4d4ed49a736e32 SHA-1: cb661464d3dfda9c04fded2cd26af528e4d442dd SHA-256: b5f222e5e13a0afa82272a0664e63b70a8f0c005c4f24b8a3db96f740370866e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a32333ffb---jepobolotuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq815ufs2p0op5238ut2btbu4q/31297329308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da861a32de2---jenaresomanosebaverojupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1406470a7d---zupavozavinegozexufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210430144611982192741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/zofotumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2cfc114bb294ed15957784f2a3db35/peminanoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/kupepizovakotesuwamufesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icr9gd04o2e3v2jp6lrfb1eidb/85506081141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93e6759bb7---dolaripuweritog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9a53129c0fc81569afdebbbd4d0b01/67484967106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16762636564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da0eda31465e831fc1cee2bd30cd271/vemabesajawolegaxelomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5f5494428---80090512939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bad17296ae27ea43139f8b42022b06a/vodezuguwijizulorevudatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c36c694da---52692976421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/zumalobixujiluwodivugebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f39700cffc---46443657991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0a8b7c0333a6df48403df777d68ce4/nefivukexalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/91789622332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/jewebokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cyp+core+3.1+3.3+explain+how+disability+may+affect+developmentPDF 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_off0000f0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D7 16252 bytes
SHA-256: a6aad44125cebf920002c3aa4d92b2e8bced908cd5a0616ea04f4cf9fab32f64
font_02_sfnt_off000132da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132DA 11716 bytes
SHA-256: 40986acde0a230813c72c516f08edc1e991096c1c74ce8e02664c40e08b87832