Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a555ee4b98a5346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:19:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a452e524657d3363b4df684e334f255 SHA-1: 3e0a7d659cbc4dc4515fd1cc912ecf9e38034e81 SHA-256: 5a555ee4b98a53465b1b297ec0879e04fa825e1ec1c543015e8f7cf7c36e4ded
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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 http://metapolar.hu/tmp/54322569891.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/foxalanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161164532d8755---44944703956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/luzezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/zemavazozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/929877fc511f918d6a78f13dbf3b53ab/bapaguwivelejovago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/watavubimidogevira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/nexebuzotebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ab8dd02c3---weroruxutafimezibivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/kegopazobidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/77462148165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210827051109482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/minivezizunafukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acecae6f6c1---37126927953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/74915530544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20216333327064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a285152c5a5---gevegidefaxopalemirona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/77564710633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ced519803---tapojamezigogojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/16111495995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miele-service-center.ru/uploads/files/vipumavaxunukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/kirokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://passaicvalleyclassof1957.com/clients/44362/File/murisotonofazofumemudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/gusikotivufikixokokegovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57f10f0237---87306899943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=libros+para+leer+la+mano+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/34114169010.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_off00011734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11734 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4B 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 48dccb39de5719e968470229d5e7fdc4018725b6481041ec0bbccbab8e0b67fe
font_02_sfnt_off00014761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14761 19880 bytes
SHA-256: d566c4cd77f5b79fa0a73c5f9feba31766214a8357e444c0680b8a71ef9df82f