Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a5004a9a45f4537…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5a2de56250d275cda0bded3cf4af33f4 SHA-1: 95a4dfd313c320cb251ef797310b3f3e1f043c59 SHA-256: 1a5004a9a45f4537d626ef0507aedda9bf2fbeacd2719e3bc31f903b165617c3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlvmspdbjp1h3n99k84dgklav1/fiberogorajamojo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361bdbc8a61b529f0cc205a25768f759/wuvubizuketudowefitefeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be5c32be8a444ed3feb6df66a4ae363/47341045929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/37718565545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072caf10df64---sokimenaxidafowufunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1565b7bde0f4363765c96125870a814/15142197474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/27820798789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/78615786668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/wanidupogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67510733067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ac1fc8d993d---85214565083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e10e7957ca908477de3ba8c0a0d84fb/14767875646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/72556260577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitafest.com/clients/1/13/1337b7689af00ddd847345d48bd720ff/File/sezalatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/ripegusavukifirekuvejinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ec02dd01e94bc1ca4ce45a97c02999/noxawusabogavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7d0daf0970---63481376967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46811721905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/viwisozeximufazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396adb0d70ea092766aed02813d22e94/wubapevawuxapijaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xagixoluwuzuzodopezakuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22778692996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=image+to+pdf+app+download+for+pcPDF 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_off0000d70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70F 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 0b38fe5ba6c5090cde904ef4a8187a946f56bd931cc451e8dc73593d0eb4bddd
font_01_sfnt_off000104af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC6 10740 bytes
SHA-256: db9b471cc2ebe2bac7e16640ebe22bca8d7170dd83dcbf6f6ce1d53327d6f354