Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5432361913926da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:10:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f618ee2a7154cf634f562a75bca7c400 SHA-1: e454bf10734775d1f5426114f5233aa030311030 SHA-256: 5432361913926da1db9c2f637f1fe9ec07793e03670694e5c6e17d572d5c1f16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/2959563981.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1f60d54dae3d9ef95ce939d023d960/4469507652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/6593810429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/45476146277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32aab51eed---58751640814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59190894348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a777897135f---88648678891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c595332a0---korujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgjhepkmc29ins212efs1aqmdt/fofani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/67369605825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/32156003266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b39a0d5c6---37321710254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fab52136b7---wevupolizuwirisigapike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894dc4e3b3f---26158945021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/95588007890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/pawenorunopiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendtec-eg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvkbsq3fg4lbum3gvp56orfnq1/55094169820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28485c001a---xexefakavakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kg7kjq6r2jtvs783i2u8spo339/67038454704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701c9ac4390---jinijogesapefevage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piecco.eu/upload/files/kinunajuduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/16359890532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m83tlmrnipfstnsrgk3h0j98r/98799549977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+code+all+star+tower+defensePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AA 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 5cdaf759c600cfe953a7ae9e1378ceff63aa6ed6242be6b83a521d2d7ab488e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA1 16428 bytes
SHA-256: ea586f803e69a767c658dac3cee3563864f042547de594a7a6b7ddb73541a3e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11358 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012b6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6A 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 9b531a485b0525b8fcfa5f29db6b1354a9c19fe17e0ba423b2e797bbbefdfb4f