Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f5f1e1c2998719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 497faf8a20572888c5b8cd565689a9ec SHA-1: 0b0f9ecd3bc41fd862efdcd583740050f0e1ac90 SHA-256: b5f5f1e1c29987198b65a746d6fb165c01ef62ffe4197fcbc4a4125bad425479
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this phishing-like attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b1161b6ddc5a84a073c625a8218c728/tofemajozepedejuzabi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210906235520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/dezawegikolafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitmet.slektenkaas.com/bilder/file/21828092700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bodudegerovudatifotabojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/rutovosakeduwetakore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8effcd07d04b785e2ce0074ba0f9973e/29309348608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/lipuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f346ef397c9f8d868894d3c3f6969494/32636976833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/kosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/55915961326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alde-pace.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisawunenuxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/85917739447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/42214680442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/11928244788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/59995433467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/memujovamakuwolagomidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/40894024702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.com/images/file/vagufuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acc93a8880---51773893405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18182409069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139591a225a4---fomemosulopevamepevusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12623300052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+message+from+ipod+to+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujunajevus.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_off0000dbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBDF 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 12906767d56e411e5fbd0e9b715647c4f539d72dc5071485b7442a0c5fdbe174
font_01_sfnt_off00010c14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C14 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 1f9807a65494973c62cfa352a60946358be0ea33d88eb8b74711ff4673a2de01
font_02_sfnt_off000124fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1