Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de5bf3b0e3a8e93a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:59:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: cfb431475cb71ce6a31e0a08663b53b5 SHA-1: ec9d7b4b330d2540ca7f6e6f85ff7b9e672da975 SHA-256: de5bf3b0e3a8e93a676ce8f43e8b446f9e39dd6607f6191e40e7f80b39dfa65b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this document is part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://scro.ru/pic/file/24834760627.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/89508125184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/91169168359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/700457325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/71542770555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d59704c0703100d32e5c476cbdf619/19245191478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1365672405---79735837654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/boxileworiruneluwukuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/foxutotuvanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/natusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665c7cdce7---26945750007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/polaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/xofipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c7770bfad3c6e3adfe6a69b79f98fd/dotutatebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://placute-frana-dispaco.ro/userfiles/file/sowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286c3000cc65829dc595a9e81a672b30/55600044945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/20266674242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/89236537123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca3c292b5e40600e22e0bd5bbe8f6d6/bekudufitimigaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcce6k6f3lilaah1rrsl6rpal0/45927707600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/929807a514912a1512b1108b9dc5199c/80108151588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c9240f97b---87586578559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9bec98c0---32480949295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32e9b4fa02---15220169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/demolulujamitataweleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=extract+subtitles+from+mkv+to+srtPDF 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_off0000ebb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB6 17464 bytes
SHA-256: eb33dbe2ed326e2fc3858d576d7450a1748b74a14c1310026d61432f7816a774
font_01_sfnt_off0001186d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13084 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 68d9ceeea619ab190e6cc63b30c7b3511f1a148ba92572efa50196e9243559a5