Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a2a51847afdf1d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:18:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f5a12bebc15c68d81735b47af9668c3a SHA-1: 5318c0c8f59cdb118bef0f95e2ce21d89d5bb980 SHA-256: 5a2a51847afdf1d386dc8d7ece6dc89fb93f987691410362a56a7376233992b7
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 used for hosting malicious files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the true destination, with a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection confirming malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through malicious links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0375e018969eb9d2e12fb910b93bcfc6/23773388718.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/83379014497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396f704d8ef---fizodurukapasijusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45752496271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/95378421589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/1630713044379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smirna.pl/files/file/jijatogijafopikutemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139469bd5e25---79779597383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/nowanafaworuwugutemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210902131329_1122921028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/99402203483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/rifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/loloziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/daxidamixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeburuzobubefawagivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/tolufipafabebemopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/sewefovusado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/rigabafisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/midumemiveterulorexevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/56599739868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/44917267123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.uniluxgym.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/maxuladure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/maxijenubeniwimawamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmapmc.com/userfiles/image/files/dafidifufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/92796926351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=action+jackson+full+movie+123moviesPDF 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_off0000d961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD961 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 25a11a5005c0d5cc59330919a867ea9e543cca4925fb56b87ae855829fcb9341
font_01_sfnt_off000107e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E0 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 0e11f3190ddc8c075e57445bfcd049ed87d14d1af984219dc0955dfc770a9e4f
font_02_sfnt_off000121ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1