Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5496d5aea08971ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e3923841c3aa7482a091d8768c7a3cbf SHA-1: ec3bb33198ad1c115bb963b54fae6c68fde069b4 SHA-256: 5496d5aea08971ad12aafd05f274935f78fa5551743e9a95de02f49dd7f09c95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or malware downloaders, making the initial delivery vector probable spearphishing.

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://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/60163668884.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdf6f057bf---39098963585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079acdc86d56---fiwemigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/73656638064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/790241e7e214760d27c6e1059aa1a0dc/72969648798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2df23a56140304e6d4bb50f5162124e/70149097176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdeb48626f598e4c134999a33bebefad/xuvirufuxotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/nafofewatujiraxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e496ff6203172a435750799b5674e13/37329381694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadolumatbaa42.com/genelresimler/file/34549054140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846f8d16f05---xebekonanetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a602253804d---12692486052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smaransaving.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fe55be5b85---lorigigisolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/damidemepumopogifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609f257c3ff76---suzuxetuwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3df1dc7662584d1dba48d04521bcaa6/josudelugabokoxigoforomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/bapifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765c1c05a7fe9413ec184d08e4696051/26866826618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/sajesewuxapifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14066380265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/10286415348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lusaogb4laa99jma1htbign73/wibujopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f0e3c4548---nelewolipelabejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=refuse+bootable+tool+downloadPDF 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_off0000da1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1B 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 4e721477924ddd19d280916c7203f31f0c765c1acdbd9604d0100ecfbca7a99b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A65 17896 bytes
SHA-256: da022fe7bbe8c372c0e43e6e5c7e403cecdb2402777a5aa556b8cc471db4e011