Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b0b8909542580e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:28:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: fb2c2c6d135076a99536c6d6451557ba SHA-1: 809c07027727cc64b19ccf64dd7c98a1e50ab0c6 SHA-256: c5b0b8909542580ee5936ac7ba5acaef39eefdf493f1e538c129fab7d75bafdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/19001471590.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/26756665035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a1b3d96322---farelosesisulekosalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1m3bi8q79hg5c0egfhgb0noat/tagoguxaxefumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/tizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/34463988235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20fcac7a743a714281096d3cbddfde58/63988568123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aae9e8ccef---jijolipavelodikunuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bec6c43395---vipapadejewaxelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b841ea2d77---23478232648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d3152fffc09cbbcbb04f1e786984a60/wupigaxivijexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1688f5d7f095bfa9dbeef3d15392b5e3/85582214283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof68.com/clients/73441/File/rarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/rexelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/51812610289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukurajesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/xilipakarozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/wejodavudesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/vipodidorugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161277f48a31ef---newedafufowifopawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/pekokuxupilosesekajazajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efa5f08476---lexororedesibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/69958586154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8d66ba3ec---19138069224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+sobre+numeros+cuanticos+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB5 21552 bytes
SHA-256: 26a941fc81e908589e59e3584d01ad24578ef731da9d46311f830b2bb46e96e4
font_01_sfnt_off0001328e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328E 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 1f6c38515f2928e9531958fb29415b4fa690daf5e2e20f67eb1e1bdf9e1f8257
font_02_sfnt_off00014c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1