Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5192e7b6dee8538f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:10:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: aa0b97fcf1723f2ee9936e192d8ce2c5 SHA-1: fb3c494513a7dc09217ebb68a7432f8d5e60eadb SHA-256: 5192e7b6dee8538fe8533c68a2893b638518c4f944ae39d920b0723b9cc184eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+instal+windows+gpt+partition PDF link annotation
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/toxexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080530ea20c7---woxelivojuporegarodubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/53944595366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebf199bb2ab380027d00363b02d676c/kawotojotodaboxogejefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc079e80732754f9318924feaee8bbe3/fagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e01034620---21849376510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f00f7e24f3cc616c666802929676d21/84598826901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/viwetajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/30177827382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0f578ac64047f82e40f087856b3dd2/29566103287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95eddd41504eee5a3f3cf343b9bd7c6/nexijuzidile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k98sp5285dpoo984ot6eqeckr0/10778318357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/sefukirimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d20f5239008986f1fa5a9d336d1e0e/58820073569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508103308271718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea4d943954---zajexutosapefejeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb26e9872f---65019064785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8941050cc---vulezuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/pojerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91bb03bdff---gupafevosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/92270032784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bea2633078055695b207f1ac71b2854/26536039977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceb7145b81---jasafasexijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e11b4eb287---lekolabuwubuvifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/9523906902.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_off0000e0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A4 17480 bytes
SHA-256: e953b525e52dda1007ddb9b65a68501cb0547982e195972d4e98e8a62ddf7b06
font_01_sfnt_off00010eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C3 10552 bytes
SHA-256: c89e7c2643f272dd74ec3a7157ac85a30f32f1cb86d1096adb71d5e3f99b4c2d