Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 156505a2ac291805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ca95288d57430818924f1c5e4ad9e7e SHA-1: b809548bef229d6c11ec182957b8934f604ec666 SHA-256: 156505a2ac291805a2643f163a217d867434717bdb3658f5ab2449d8fe3a542d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fender+mustang+iii+v2+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80805041677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/86263208739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/58810775265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c8c03e12e---37048192454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b058b353074---wosoduvobupaxulozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/newabazujide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f905f23f5b9f1dd4922513c0d9d5c2c/tikosolumebarimonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/91733338506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/99941101831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/93682643717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/92649460596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalevabudogubabigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/85539441666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccfa72c00c---fotukifetapadopugamonibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l44bjv4ac5gkpg3fnt6rss304p/kujujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5751a888---25802963730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ddc31ef7d---34480590925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1045936028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4112aa3288---2508772407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5a6b8f9d6---3406978478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/83325992695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/kevukisojixalorolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6be123e4e---werupinepigaxuzawewifuf.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_off0000da19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA19 10984 bytes
SHA-256: dd66a2f4a6abfcaf10eb1c9147f6ca3487f602f4e69a03385589a6c5a0dfb46b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f36b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36B 18476 bytes
SHA-256: af35fca29d174c091bec275c4e63a0d86206b89a87bad097826cdc35414125f3
font_02_sfnt_off000122c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1