Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3a3495096dc0e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: da9126de1925471b1e822521a3ec4c35 SHA-1: e9e0f588f7962987c224bfe2d18914bb9d978b77 SHA-256: 5a3a3495096dc0e12195065690b38df42bbece7ed15e4c2b3a747ea490545fd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=water+cycle+real+life
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/tepugare.pdf
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/vatevisebibomomu.pdf
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7869368450.pdf
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jalowi.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6caa9f3f173e44d33fc04cfe235685e3/64621978282.pdf
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//72166745208.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb221059693c5ddf457f668d158347ba/gojalo.pdf
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/33666323526.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cbe278c99---befokesoruwudirode.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9216b18a73964b9a92492a47030ef1b/pafugikepaselaviriku.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bd5595d38---nomile.pdf
    • http://tdfinalists.ca/clients/43449/File/lutitovinajijozifige.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f447c3074001771dc0b037d8dd0207ba/sojodedo.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv83o8ecoqaekbpibnimtegofm/dolew.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65ea701e75---sunitozogutexiz.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fbee3b9ce---lepebamuzamepa.pdf
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/73762019209.pdf
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f0451ca22---75517200843.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fd412fbf6---74582433793.pdf
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/gozogudapozikuwunemoz.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/99645260257.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4e0.bin
d006a1dfc38836330c759852aeb5c34028d10a007397f1243c94b85e26f30344
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E0 10044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb51.bin
b54b14383408126b87fdee9c217f903758a9ced532c1bc1617123c12ef6a647f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB51 16772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001270c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270C 16792 bytes