Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a4a2361b14b5c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:29:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1f6b3581e31a6ff03ff499168222268c SHA-1: 57c1e407a5d51d98148bc4af1896548b317f308b SHA-256: 5a4a2361b14b5c9fe82d04a472ddbf506eba3c886eea52a75472345147d2c33a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Some of these links point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to leverage these for hosting malicious content or redirecting users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://mytopics.it/uploads/file/zusunifozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/68018257489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/suted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed64a15692---49997997055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b866556c397---51848940888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb16737f735---80325513268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082180ee698c---26205249970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/gewinisimogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735e32e1df1---72861013536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951d2b4179---viwuwozesovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/dapanivulojetujevafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s40p8b5dmja9omvqtjop1n5v4s/62356153405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnlcoach.com/misc2/file/In PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/danagovidunixesuxatuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709238efe22---84693762173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/leribiwinukilotavosolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/38460868664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1491fdb039---82148359125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/gajipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e634faef6a2ae9d7d3972c7b4f3b46e/57238985734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3a91cd740---dipebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv6sr5pqcnmr7c8oc4a1f1rd98/81343890764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cod+mobile+free+cod+points+no+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000bf48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF48 11220 bytes
SHA-256: ddfbdf533bad90cc82bfb66d0237711265cc853216377b3004b6cfb18d7d70a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD927 15932 bytes
SHA-256: 68e0e344f58395f3ff7ab6669ee11f5e964a7c2e62c04327006cbaa90bee2e65
font_02_sfnt_off00010289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10289 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1