Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a111cd3af90da29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:12:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e05d551a295fcdcad75e56b5829703bc SHA-1: d713f8b846e31b57651818ff2e5e05881ee56466 SHA-256: 5a111cd3af90da296853cba9a6b3fb4fc315ed6f74356055eee3e1fe057aed72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of link farms hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The primary function seems to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=122+square+root
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/22840768353.pdf
    • http://sfalojistik.com/userfiles/file/wodukewoku.pdf
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/34119808557.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db5974ac2c10cfdcb6379ff17f6b6c65/58344717184.pdf
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210911171701091.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32541a7bd40f1dfff3f467715a63d160/jobedim.pdf
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/likalutelikaba.pdf
    • https://bbox.ru/images/shared/file/23204744782.pdf
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/rowekiwugapivududo.pdf
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_A79E1CC3881D6D6E.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615407cb4b5b04090705452463a5777d/kawinelaruravizowab.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9902223c2a4dc144c5b20527154fea59/63498265235.pdf
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/55687113733.pdf
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/dipunovux.pdf
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/vofimifonufujiredelademiv.pdf
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/dukuluxezezopekive.pdf
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/dofufot.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d0be447fc---41926283099.pdf
    • http://umartravel.com/files/luliginejifafegibi.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613060be8c883---70560247548.pdf
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/sonajuwuxikifujinejuniv.pdf
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/24076339829.pdf
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/29450682915.pdf
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77548013740.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001293f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014156.bin
965e25290a491957ca25c127eddfecc3a26f89cc72be42cc0173ea700330241a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14156 10180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001585b.bin
372111844d460d7f3e2f492471c1d9da60ba9c1fe72cf5fba5ed27eccefeb6c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1585B 20028 bytes