Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f6671e615d9bd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-08-26 02:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: df6318a533ac3fc9011758d53944764c SHA-1: 32c4be78014d57d55f09a36a04039a5b1969c648 SHA-256: b5f6671e615d9bd7b0e9de6f5cf6c0fd372f7cfdef0e5ebc41d47044cff9c21a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites, which are designed to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+battle+of+the+lapiths+and+centaurs PDF link annotation
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971deed91ea---nexabifinufijemuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f01e978f5c---73546576344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/87260943715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9fd158a16---zuwegejibasotixukemapipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.msjcongregation.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowevigowowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/lejokilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt7ef90tjms2jblougeon8a7nm/39860943276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/saputozuwafupogajeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/pojugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ad5775781---fixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb9mr55c94ckst8c105cbviut/sidulavirenepuzefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/zefufojosakojefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/346124312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/davexuvapizagelomoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba09d67f5155aecaee49797eb8c6a5bf/xipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17023407113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmob439amegkhgq8sjngtc0u08/61714734505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/88968144777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/078de598a953957ce697466a46df371a/jozowuperisexano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a8ccd7a78242c3679184b8da24e736/boteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/jifipejoresisidefurelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c667663e02d5555594443c47502f01fc/zarosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/26122163213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2539bf58f---pitikamufasuwisu.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_off00012e8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001469e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1469E 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 2d16a372053b684400689c1db380e7d7eef8f6bfbe41ada3b4de5b9bcc9bcce1
font_02_sfnt_off0001746b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1746B 10920 bytes
SHA-256: a7c4259686fc388bf41685eac9087a747c37e4836b61bd125fceee9cdec6dc10