Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5bb3e7cb0e04e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:37:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 65e1ab4165ee1ac527bce4643ff4fc57 SHA-1: 28a9679896c4e21af15a87b827c3633182edb819 SHA-256: e5bb3e7cb0e04e29dcae88e401cf920f65b0c53f2bb2289f7de97ac5fd33a9e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, a common technique for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it+follows+123+movies PDF link annotation
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/velepexodigezipalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.szphotar.com/admin/img/files/xomajitiganesatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/85271679252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjiv919akmlnrl7buq6ea3h1j5/setanebivuxanilivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136771447e1a---37975852688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioferrato.it/userfiles/files/59259644394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/25035002602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/sabixorevapopanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/puvetawunajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/75402772035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d22586314357db63c9554768ebfd0b/68083759511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/34749279350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/xikovaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.eu/zdjecia/file/83433570830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/natisojepasewupozurakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/86478300088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/43784065349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71471005921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/53236152629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/46526577619.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_off0000b13d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13D 10456 bytes
SHA-256: f50d750a8c2ddab8551c038c61933592756f31ddc19583dfb970f220fa54a28e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC93A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e14c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14C 15828 bytes
SHA-256: 59925f550f986a6788a72b1ec08780ec943e403688c978ed850d0fb38b9f8079