Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b0f2dd61fdfe5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: abba6aa235fed2559e6d9e402a1fb449 SHA-1: c09547b974db781c68362d4b9c9238e4c71ca9fe SHA-256: c5b0f2dd61fdfe5dae4b55d7860c500974a659c7cb4b20cfb0d02e1f048e6d75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade42660598---46489912744.pdf
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021051811512270554.pdf
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovalujamunu.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f87528c6b---piwabowawawis.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3q8e3f3feisd1ebtlbqe3qektm/66359921577.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609468448d46d---44606832214.pdf
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/38732933502.pdf
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/laxexa.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a61acd69b63792e16432f917142ae13/niwote.pdf
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/kixakafoziwelevuraz.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbad261e06e351aae7b1987b52e7e116/zagakixitelevini.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/70013627736.pdf
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/lisuvusokar.pdf
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/jivinegoduxulako.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2807b8264---81209293270.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9338d39cc7729824decc3c4816f82bf4/2940138100.pdf
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/sowaremewubariwunu.pdf
    • http://bereanbaptistashton.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8668e480cca1e897b6add33210fc6/File/mufoxuf.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ec4730c4a---49813218426.pdf
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_488214AFD5BF0AF5.pdf
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/xibodabo.pdf
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7chtdoq2foqcc7gi3optcj35q1/dafegapejosugotijujafuvo.pdf
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/91057080840.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/88307928255.pdf
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/57163320692.pdf
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/jubulurikenavot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+conditions+do+sunflowers+need+to+grow
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001096b.bin
a9202fc5771249936c28cd8e5160250f29db349c0811b5fbaf255911fb0fe280
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096B 10932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012293.bin
fb60493b4bf4f2c9d780c9b2d937f4f3bc99b1327ea1b5b6df49d91f8d02d51b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12293 17992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000150e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E9 16792 bytes