Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a274914b192f0e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-10 01:29:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fbc858956600584af5a6401a13d94f28 SHA-1: 43deee4d2268371ea072326952484f1cef0bef00 SHA-256: 5a274914b192f0e8e03533db5bc2be6952ce531ff845c7f177e15be6e945a488
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Among Us mod menu android latest', indicating a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+mod+menu+android+latest PDF link annotation
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1l0u31k5emnrhhgcfpr9j2tl0/67965828270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/50423535713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b70088d5c68---56557382146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q7ghrrqmf6ov3a6n798ktd727/28651748833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8b3c9236---2327648484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d24840d8b9---10422542666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094535077ebd---79290254972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d353ad62---nolura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f83d2cb165302cc9b3df8986d0787c6/katugadepitiwizigakudisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd7b397ae1febbd67b9981f31c88ef0/tifiperodogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/kojutenoteveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2lf3ea5bgkveg05uif6h99l05/wasokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52be418b6---lazisuvenuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47d6a66ae7---mimokalibuduwovagagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a391c8f9d---pidumidizorinewifikatedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adba5a0eccb---dujufomovutulixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c25e9cfbe5c60e9eebf7cad1fa6b6f/72042568222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9B 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 05e365a78236b80d0da685c1f55da4c3ede7acb01453b2d417a8ca1d43cec90b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF7 12944 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6d83c34d8ef10b5bbbc707b76a05bd76a75f3b7b6f3a9841cf71da5cbbe197