Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a387deee06707d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:21:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c4798a39b35f6107965c040786dc22e6 SHA-1: c3e97d27b1203b0b06733724e13407936b074d62 SHA-256: 5a387deee06707d3f19b65c96e752255bb2018c4cb7c3aa0603c13ff16aac706
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://ekotronic.eu/files/file/8775083097.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/77769012526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4c74d72ac---70477645591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a3d83d7d47e1093c9a85ec5ac138b9/85636193673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/moxoxepuvanozibovade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/benirukutesikuxowototu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825ad28051c---pikufaxajatotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eca96e9cb---23598504001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e25462fce565ea2a6f849b64c9142aa6/jojasorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6bdf58a76---97330926167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/tazefaxoxobogixomariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045a413c2dd822b1de304d3256f17421/28528978271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/77977202510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/zesanogofijibufitaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd872d71011528e8d823ad314e47ec07/88713748280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/97981649339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac666d47167---35540615239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a4ba6f013---kopotatameforuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/8340319019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533kdfte512o1eds6ic0om7f7o/vawodazelesexokopela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/kojenudomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b906b70e9b9---fosotedipitagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/wovulodotudabowusujiguwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=witcher+1+sex+cardsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4B 16364 bytes
SHA-256: 56087f09d8133d1c8dff9579cc958a39d3733cd1f6636772d8edbec25b2c4e51
font_01_sfnt_off00011064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11064 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001287b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287B 10344 bytes
SHA-256: ea68dce6bbfff36711b3221d30c9d1ec9261f56dd2570c526e30b868edd16da8
font_03_sfnt_off00014014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14014 16672 bytes
SHA-256: c2ef729906dee634c2c2cc588aaa5fcb039e28dd4d0f3ecfcfafdc4224e09166