Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f4954f87695b4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1e53fb1236441659701c2f005907ec57 SHA-1: d16205b5c5309d229176ba033287e9315432f017 SHA-256: b5f4954f87695b4ad3994ed5747bbd3dbf2ddd92cd591bef927d716f28d56e6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this document is part of a phishing campaign, likely attempting to trick users into downloading further malware or divulging sensitive information.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=files+required+to+download+gta+online PDF link annotation
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/93333380896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/57949902997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/18459615163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikoloroniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/bijomunaluvififafudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpt.mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/37455831331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613360bb88d6e---70099458648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/99380020860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/72897616275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/4232775453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef6e3f0369---46577639236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75860572978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/fasemulanusokidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefani.cz/fck/file/vodaxogazokuwukadavewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometutorsdelhi.com/userfiles/files/87298878382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/pafoxigezawolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a88d95ae9---konedadaxomibotajuzato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/nomagevasamibifuvewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/narujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/65993488479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396ecc552d6---10761962812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/19634238267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB401 14528 bytes
SHA-256: ed49fefc3a186acea3d985ad0524a5d3fc10088cf101cdcd4c8808ed40bb0f2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD852 10732 bytes
SHA-256: d05f65638e390627c48c2a4de60d4aa05f29a70bc3975a17d83ae3029b271a4e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1