Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a4b5cbe473a3497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:44:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b6fafae82c4f1f38d15a079800ee18ef SHA-1: 48dc3464bae2b2e1abc51209f51ef8c5d7e5710c SHA-256: 5a4b5cbe473a3497251c598d27093d9a0213d1a937d7fedcfe9b37a9ba06fc8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a large number of URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+ten+best+ppsspp+games PDF link annotation
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/33809426542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/misawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af5db434db---30323743152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/zewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/mapugalozawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status.cz/UserFiles/File/fovanobifedijupanowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef85c91d2e---31259368718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6a511vpgtip20ljuhsdk8fnt9/xidumoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/4058148058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409c075b67e---6941703233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/43867981722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximomenavogipijodunibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41627657959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feminella.ro/upload/fck/76113548938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/37011932666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/2173820659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/424911_jezukegolabizazibuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozefipowaluvawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614189d7e4ad9---jodemukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81328440322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcb64c24917b79929a6483fe6130c6c8/gosufozomizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/kivasapexefaziboxajujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/tebejuliwizibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/37873250246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/vopiguren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/66043810516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210913165625_852597254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopibasolupeduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000de64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE64 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 22b4f588d8ed1a76e4c9fe87aa344b9add7e1dcb8e318d55545b7c1cbe5bd490
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EE 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 089154413ee9656d51e29ae63e3c06ca24eed3437751b2fb91238b23b600eb4e