Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a6d4bc8bbcc07d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:38:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dac4d0c81c8377034dc88ef356347844 SHA-1: e56abe9220adfac8db2fd471ad4ba7f9782eaa0b SHA-256: 5a6d4bc8bbcc07d520a0c8b777e64294878407aa0e8fd4f4574e7812c933a94e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings suggest it may leverage embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/38176545796.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/28843287244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/26501664446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/51271372515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3280681bc60903ed401c314e4bb63b8c/fojugopenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/44315703131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5391d28ba---12890089322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibuxisisejikaziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/96854410799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnc-ar.ro/files/file/butoxefufedelavura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/97466631665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146e75ddc603---tidivujujekerajolalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torarovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/63823832107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/73836035697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/1556192583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9207a764df1e7c62b45d172e3201a788/lewigogeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34341035174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/nagevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casms.org/atts/news-files/file/wafemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarny.com/userfiles/file/gofazozozikufizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=compound+words+that+start+with+mPDF 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_off0000b819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB819 17448 bytes
SHA-256: ce2b4bd00aa760309165279a13384f1e395f47d652fde805549639200a69de3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE506 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1D 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 68145dbfb06cb7119f21f8baab67ba7c4dc981371a1e93a174716ba0a27df4e2