Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a5edf02be570425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 18:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 800ee588a2b48cfd2fa08aa619c44acc SHA-1: aeb3e4ca15d5dc7149f6f474008d48a2247b29b5 SHA-256: 5a5edf02be570425b44892c4ef4b7907ffef2ffa164dd8fe71942f0238a15aa0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection as a Trojan indicate a likely intent to redirect users to a phishing site or download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://vkts.se/userfiles/file/29954302445.pdf
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e322f1bb2e2050d37d8fc4a58917f9/43858827142.pdf
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/sixufagenujoduwaxawaw.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082425ccd1bd---7088550256.pdf
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8b0038e2961c7f11278cea8fbcdc92/42787115677.pdf
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31612915926.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c264373678d---bifaropodoton.pdf
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/54961222950.pdf
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/gidexofitubo.pdf
    • http://mvsexpo.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43762926484.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce79f8a84f4bc489e38cab687d0892db/vulubevogezujuwetuvivize.pdf
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewewilupafabogiseletef.pdf
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210531175404.pdf
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/kewewepugino.pdf
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8573520e690b1cac5659ec485e6503/7192171764.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4f145148d2a48d90bdacdf2858495f/39148734408.pdf
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/wajebasesegovef.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3a3e7654d---6235878685.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf1a560193---90398774663.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072041fcf4b0---9299505496.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e394e8e19e44f6dcee05225b5bced90/98009771896.pdf
    • http://gurukripapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/dubofitobiz.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608873244d549---20936946701.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=caso+8+de+factorizaci%C3%B3n+concepto
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001169a.bin
0c14f30cf4de10402db2b130a2bff2ff49e8e8c8960604d1f8f26002e22629ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 18980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014830.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14830 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016047.bin
af9178ca1dd8d1cc2b27aab103455e96e44bfc83054b71140099cb13f46da344
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16047 11004 bytes