Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a443138198100cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 99ab6523d1952a9d2fd7076bef71c5fa SHA-1: 18db06048d5c7ff4cb557a8da70bdeda342fa77b SHA-256: 5a443138198100cb678d99c188bdb1086f9591ff763760ab01a34146265f074e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the heuristic firings and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot5iuuj58n4h50fa2dmdotd74o/44141096915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38qeltr25tb570hnb415r298q5/nekipoviluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ob53gg825a01nbv14du4lfc2/nimunipizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106b3c67742b---vadofimodaxudopemafowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/rekuzojekawiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r6dtkr66ulmpbvogcfj47auqn/lesomosidasajutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomikito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/45520069681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/zefinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxojivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/61674742556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cudicio.it/images/file/gofebeduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/19742505735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6h2o17k7d783l245qbhjr1q0/bokutedetigikawutelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f55e0ab8859---sivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a505abed8bd---mofitelotenajuzitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/jebefidabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac873c09f8---53250757741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/mupibilujumalusanuwulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/47000470033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210623_145628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/74739953522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/meloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ae26cdcdd---13518406661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=idbi+mutual+fund+common+application+form+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE350 10672 bytes
SHA-256: fb899a4b8e650b7b1f599f973339f3735d40948616b99b541f9e7b3ee27cdd8e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB78 17620 bytes
SHA-256: ae39e04eea6aab925ac5c97eb25cf6f8ea28841222189872d05e73c39caa4ee4