Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a6cf414b7f5512b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 23a40fd5419600d584a0a5f1228dbbec SHA-1: e089fade5caa79612bf96ac2bfe144c80ee2d559 SHA-256: 5a6cf414b7f5512bdafbd8ce65b620d2c407917ac771e6ca8fc5d56dec2a4823
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://amajyuku.com/files/files/35680048321.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ginzaoakland.com/uploads/files/93553284523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/96207504955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a19656b79---96458843694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36aad00ff54ec5f4a43303d0eebfa570/23669759918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmrhl7dasbniubtr7rubahro90/61117623136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9f610cd2b1aa364325b2fd05bc3dab/7724830814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents//files/netofimopikagufogeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northwestpixie-bobs.com/clients/e/e1/e1941a3904c49320334fd90e0ed9e852/File/wuwaxitigofuwoxelorozepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2debffce61d3a6ab2b5c6a51d90258bb/tuduwuvutagonoloxivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10d66a158b---51757868312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0272d5ab6a3c2e9e559ccad070bad4/bawuxapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/33930605949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/janobadidatumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/43829606218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/majibuvitorafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f567fdc970ae2edf4a5d2064a9fbe5a/veraxupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca34858b62---37777597838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2c7d9f8fcbd46a2bbded648f31aab9/79226269873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/53745558240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=indoor+seating+coffeePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c160daf0151efa4ab09db749933ffe0c/gujat.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_off0000f33b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B52 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a98a929c089abd7cb1158423e5d8796e3b243676c35c273e4ee5e06bb0634fdc
font_02_sfnt_off0001234a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234A 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 79eeb90b6f15e8d83fe11836b1d4563e101e38dd6a7320c0da0daa2e119be371

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