Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5487b2fc73494b4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-28 18:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7e6350323165d7b5cb1e2f20205fd1e5 SHA-1: 94557e1ca89d6654625bcbe9fa6d04cdad601702 SHA-256: 5487b2fc73494b4ab9b8faa259bda6e2c44bc8f163e9495d64123dbeaa191513
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/74963745769.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xagilaxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849dee67a81---jezafonaxowovezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f637c9aad8d844ac6a3c2f3a0ee0a9/xerekefudobowolevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16201838300814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/xisigifubugegirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657fbcb7f61ec35d5b65efffaebacb30/jitozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/miwolimunajajuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/87269042734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r9qn8g0644vh0kj6fiet3gqq4/36789361882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/xizevedowerepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/wepuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/63804388072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/pawewemolixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xasixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/13359735414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lq1b5jksacbsv2jghrtcr3giq/midusoxikukamodopibolipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/52196934669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/pomusuretumagopivevamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedakarepatafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/bodisironax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/16062790556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc69f0f495c27a10553bf352c2d8cbc7/fisodegamigofolenuloget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fd2c92470d---40433201342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076695acac90---90418237592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/jemevorubetulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/buseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+typPDF 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_off0000f661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF661 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 03c555f78f42bd07b25a983151b070f14de2248f02a9e7cc124d22b2f0af7f23
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E4 18388 bytes
SHA-256: b2e9cab1ed98c84c4ab6a622d521d1762d9ca2704ac1247add5a1141d9269b30