Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b22545b3b0e5c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 10:43:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6a20d5b04d91f2d7a99ffe704786e3d6 SHA-1: 56b5651d5d4e2f86720517757a0a23319bf72980 SHA-256: e5b22545b3b0e5c691936c8a687632c8cd1b43fcaed0fd364db65b0d645dd497
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, potentially for phishing or malware downloads. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a redirection-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+apk+download+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320389b1381---zifixanezunozerilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202109171259454826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/89220106222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/82106224263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masonhn.com/d/files/getudutokedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bop9r2br2pd2aq29empa6gtv6/36407485357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161455aaa11612---nuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139998c55bce---lexakafimefupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c5fdb4518545f5a5a9750211ea7bba5/kumigekivederekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140437cb1dc0---wimaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luxboss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/potesezixixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/55173170413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/96273293548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d41cb080b---witusexefumeziriguzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/famokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupa-energia.pl/attachments/file/5675863737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tch.lu/files/files/18359809692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f097faad2a---mebikibezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maudchristan.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26184758606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/sabubipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/fapiritamukajaberiw.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_off0000dd9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9A 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 76c07faf2ab9ba7dc5f99f88596ba8e4eefcaf8a82c8be4904dc80e1328f805e
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0D 10744 bytes
SHA-256: db9e8830244d48e50de3d64ae8d0ba4471626609e025cf5a982685a45c235480
font_02_sfnt_off0001258b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1