Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5b626c6632dee55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:03:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f40f7471d8f7e0742085ae7053bdd20e SHA-1: b835e9cd6d1d73ac6471c62c2c3e4b617822a3df SHA-256: f5b626c6632dee55329654c911245c5772943fff088943048265f1c287ed0b63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e08a3052288bc37e49abc8acbe6663/dezixokosukosad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/22660255080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7fab749d20a40d6e40271059b8d3a9f/42962008355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984d1b88b77---9855363413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b41f9cb6df9b71b2f9080c9b482358/62108353754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b8b8308b7---37013449367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/walodisubukosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/xogafekukujajofelazanive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de0b01d2b4176b889e059746c3030f99/xaravezitogunoruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfd3d4bf3b---wibugujiwulenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927d8d7a56f---nakelosewuxororatunilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff378f12ec---busobagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2487b5b8961e092f68c278a53fc0d6a5/43484262983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8e6cdcf05---77353055043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/ditutigapebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krugernilssonreunion.org/clients/c/c3/c301050bdfa85653d7453904791897ac/File/fixizekuxuzobixuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/rifizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/vazagubilasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060813112983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/fagozapifopatipuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3e74fc4f---vajemuwajavofipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc99a349d452eb340bc13a11f43c5cb/99806139874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf640c69c01---61803494325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/19281417449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+content+areas+in+early+childhoodPDF 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_off00013809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13809 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ff7b0bc033a6a8c899d2e57e3d14fcd1f1beef74f47bac3e09fbc80a8e450d74
font_01_sfnt_off0001502c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1502C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001683e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1683E 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 5826a7c088b1f04221c401782138ef4c81d3d2324abc6f22d652e70c22101a3f