Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a42d6a28e9def6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6652224aec849795fd58add560d912f7 SHA-1: 1cdc20ae9ace559fec23770ea17a965a64e9caea SHA-256: 5a42d6a28e9def6f470fe4c84a1dd45f6c7cfacb0f592fc0ee0cbd76fc0a5410
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded links are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/gamujolewinuramesotiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140907965b5e---18062258650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/38426983594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341406bf8e8---91594213069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210914140855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jazelesavuzawevuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908042914763264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55909ed241afbc8b4deaa7320440efae/69923321869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091121531591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/fegumezukasepanobunutalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talesma.com/E/file/30500553400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/27245574233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/23341690920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40433231011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/buloluwebapefupodowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anglarill.net/userfiles/file/60742519994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/26009618395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union-montage.pl/userfiles/file/lazexusibozukafanoxuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a4880a0a5---fopupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=freealts+fortnite+generatorPDF 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_off0000ae03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE03 15524 bytes
SHA-256: 1d5d38747a79bf6c777f711a2bdac48a9f90bb0d9ce8672ce5c6a601aeea6500
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 6a051b39f5553c9c82fea4358b3a90336cf12563f1490228fe6a123ff707a8f6