Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a326922966f58c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-19 14:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ad27a637d7aea1b7cf7b611a6bb9af6 SHA-1: 64f1c86d1ec72150e676bd6facaba2204ad80b33 SHA-256: 5a326922966f58c36758d92d17fffa631ff87f597ea9ea9d5e659dba7cbf4d8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites, disguised as a calculator for quadratic equations. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/96750494025.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgk95qnl74b3s89l326abgkm4p/35061290870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496c9c23cdd9ea7a2164262989567de7/33964530008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/74619880230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/1115668047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd106a4a62d---10951002506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1beb99865---fufitomubodomifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d7991a705---gimunotutuvajemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/038eb5577461e24e54ffdebe11de0323/31105869949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bcvl5ufgg7n817desokrbvs3/22338035861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/66047097468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2352539b99---durufaxaruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh951lr0ucjik82pkomnoitm4j/44260434140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/84811994086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/rovanotarumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/pilagosizedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608735e500e8c---zefigejixojumesuwizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=finding+quadratic+equation+given+the+roots+calculatorPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A3 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 35b9f1da96555a42ce213fbdccb4af9e85edae4ae014218e30f62dfce48aa329
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCB 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 1e8e752247f15418d4a7b117a7c8fd3e869efcdbd75baa217fc4f01dc94c67bb