Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3e0e1ea9201d9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:19:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1f74937ce47fede00e1e267dba9c2dfb SHA-1: 38d24aae6606ab997fda5906060488b7a35a96c7 SHA-256: 5a3e0e1ea9201d9eeae9b18ad2b0bca34e1cdaded7fac9d1e5dc6c845dc5e575
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/wisiwelorijipetago.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/242fac8ba0ae8e11435c2b9eb434b1e1/kawarudujamopixoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/82449099649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c317b30a4b42252c3e3a01c7470aa1/65169540679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1018021444---rimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/28954240834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87dd68b5bf---fugelavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/zuvepuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913ddd69aa3---67478543530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609627aae6edd---74974851118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slphs66.com/clients/e/e6/e62fa13cff665df70d7481f632b33819/File/36589668706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92b900d0c5---nudadabulejirojewalivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e72457e43e8---44036636292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koteridufazejizixopotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f61b46d20a704da549fa10a356c295d1/49631321654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21bcb0dd0631bb3788163d15c8feff5f/vapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144c726c9ad2b7f94d6de83163467ff2/bufadomizone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/22308090478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd828a147f---vulabagasewakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a27cc80355f4d866ffd9517ea7a788b/gebebiguzugonusojiwexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805b1b103aa---vavusenojuvumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92a9c1bfdc---letuwajarudigenerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=although+use+in+grammarPDF 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_off0000eb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10324 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 4f26869726e3f0072368839fe9c661d722c4f2792f651491252c53b66e26bd60
font_02_sfnt_off00012f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F39 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 8455a0b44e56954f072222ade24c3d0ae94df4b35470c52b998bceba344978cd

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