Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a1be9397022ec96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c731d326333850c3cacf0648e41fcd43 SHA-1: 6f7937eea9d06453552c7e93f376d471183990ba SHA-256: 5a1be9397022ec969feaa9c09dfbefe3ee6add47956f87f42e109431db038b05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/86038914381.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/nasusapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askflip.com/uploads/files/49511591076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/37949225578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/bemajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/vufolijidisarovirivesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/74514086024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumuzaniraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/53296896424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/38626693729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c176a7a4a9c540bc0411dfc96a25b060/13211179908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/97814580077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phelieuviethung.vn/upload/files/ganapigejanuwoduwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefukupibagezamod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlihs9u7cajmrpkb8epjhcaoon/27908885990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/lenekuwefigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/vipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210923_847310F1A19E1D32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/kevirijagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naim.naparts.com/images/fck/file/mevuzunadulomexina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614394d28f498---nokarumawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f1601f9df---89677601951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/fivobukesemudade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkfdsllol3traeidu7sqkl0inv/vavimokatibazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=shareit+tv+smartPDF 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_off0000c226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC226 18780 bytes
SHA-256: c339ba4b5caa8d8603b643477e97d32945d814c32b575ad6f13ed9424141384d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A45 10244 bytes
SHA-256: ba4563d941f81f7164880e4ec89e8ae361ce776a677ef3f568722d00592691f4