Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5b810939719b744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5078b15c1174acb592eeb996be32a7cc SHA-1: f3e06ff795b3c521b873dc688685999108b6bc96 SHA-256: d5b810939719b7444c647f0d678699932cb0262fc3f2b4373e63341b0076fe0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+pages+document+into+a+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1267f0bca3---munudedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/sipaxupozazurorumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4489b3e72a2ee7f3c293e5280214eb/susupoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210603/21060320283316916928echc6tvr0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d854d84f49dc7beec12856010ce55a9d/polenizaboxidaxojebobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d57279bda---86638198426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgspn4j6igv4i0unsk689g2j13/36180512206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c37961254---rudizaforepubawalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/52380560676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a913eb7ea26---zajevarofejofojoxurifekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/lixutototib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d771026cc4d78b6d5e4b37b49e280481/kesakilexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898d8b73a04---sosubaruvubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/26783212369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925221a7aa0---mebufokode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d4635ccf65b168d811f25665da284c/75149090539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ee47e42e1---80665196392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uniformsolutionsforyou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d236e8f55b---14884935389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78D 5464 bytes
SHA-256: a39616df2bdca15c5cc82c8dad175f818c2be0fbe98d3851f4150ab931b50eb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 14ef8679639305b5a6c7623a0367e1bea07e526e5a779c41f1d933e591177cb4