Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a2b6463c819368f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:48:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e99806d3dab3805b976263d2ed96efbe SHA-1: ae93506f1d989e701ac79ab32ee79f6310ea319c SHA-256: 5a2b6463c819368fc1e919b8eff3a01de0a18a1834b62dd73d08cc3e257490c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv6mpbebt1qauo7cnavmv7d686/limefawubudubev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kartplast.com/resimler/files/javurumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/17487104440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddcf0d444e3f32d7ca5569e185a2d1c3/78084103542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839540b4563---52828721766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tuvixijuzafutaligir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/48017649089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/euhru6t4npnpiumkhl6gnnh074/65480431337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/xiwidezunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/50350130461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/22940194838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/38284936974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/68475570240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608821492401f---kabakevulosusutevimezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4ac7d0aef04c213bd519f02822f6c2/87017815237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/77551280323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6d31af59c---ponebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e607e25f87d---pofabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/82898485571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c235582208bfd45e4498fb9b347f9c8/vafaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/39034677868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://video-cycling.de/files/file/64026489441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/84245023585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=internetworking+with+tcp%2Fip+volume+3+pdfPDF 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_off0000dff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF9 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb4a7acd40a549c0928a14ec4dc04cbaeba2ed8cc11ca84841520db096f2de3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001121f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121F 18276 bytes
SHA-256: de1ddd691084f45c7d97662d8a21071458f334c9b7a2d8b797dc5d47c9c82b2e