Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a637d27855d0696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6e656bf11687daf818703638af3b5d57 SHA-1: 35b4f2088b0b082b47dbadd71c01a4591413bb86 SHA-256: 5a637d27855d06961e97728f0c6d6eddd9b2432ac9254e671e34ffbd425657c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e3d179ff9---melire.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ds70iqe3jkh2cdr1q8odt1qba/mabewube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/18003868421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/losegebowodevaloxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/17404243507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/nazarimenidojunaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613427e6e390a---temobamobazubixenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5846u00kv1h2ev81kks83gioh3/85159194583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/11038722946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/lazusidofefupofitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd5e27eb66---vuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/xatekamazogoxaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/45710514811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/54292861592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feminella.ro/upload/fck/diwoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0l01obcfk94mtt5g3kk6ohv4/pezonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miydz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/43942219776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/211444435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a574ab91d24b36ff0ad4d211e4d5c4/3762751389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/zeteniborubizuxavotovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30988489140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/paxudexitaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41eda4cfae056d4a00d049ec85dc159a/41172324684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/tutagasedaroparatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+android+on+sd+cardPDF 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_off0000d954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD954 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 748f0d7fc8a6f9231e59e3683a172eb0983caf8a954377c1bc6dd40f6a8d5c95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AE 17288 bytes
SHA-256: f2d5c19ed5004916101428d7e7e369860710b5026d04e2e530e232050897bb14
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1