Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f5420858610283…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:05:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3927865e867d669bdfbd1b09d305a34f SHA-1: f56fd59d31bf4409bd1cafe283c93bc033a7d881 SHA-256: b5f5420858610283cc0fb93211379c045bab4c8f6259fb5137348b43ad105fbd
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, including one pointing to a raw IP address and others hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/47955540046.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/valeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somejuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/900971087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/20278421278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/bugevadilesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigutelomagibokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/ximijivirovuleziteloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/bimeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/76517329494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48699110124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_192222.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/72106607612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/futepewakelofepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b19864c8c8---vajafutezesuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/nedozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370db81aa3f---nokakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/956080676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a1700987e---96485128193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382d9af1852---79906440217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/najeguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/kaxozipelazogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=saavn+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000db26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB26 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 27eab733d37ee8bc7e99a5108ac12e438279c9cd255893eb71ac4ce368ba743c
font_01_sfnt_off00010b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B56 10116 bytes
SHA-256: c0c71d9fb5e7ef03f5a72565b1238a94d6f391bc0e6cbce91a6215a0a47e2031
font_02_sfnt_off00012215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1