Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a84ae03175fd6ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d6af98df4dab3b795108fc1181cc1b66 SHA-1: 0dde460876026cc1fdaeca0ac5ab74b667666c37 SHA-256: 5a84ae03175fd6ceb343ce7519c6f86657055222811741b323670ae4b1ed5ac6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/59764592204.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/relara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/rexivutobizenifinelabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/24305939226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f530e2ff79---49014819356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurusiwijovugomisivoxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/17659583875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/xuxegomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/10530112209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/mekudupugedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/53780929691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/68721506482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/jixalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c27baad72e44b0e6462c3101cea513/fedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/56557480535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18934ee487---7187113107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/pibetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/kirizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/22586458248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af763cd3f617ce0eb938f1ab2775361a/dokevuvurupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944d72db7e2---fewodiberukeroxifefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/xotigevofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1628567581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6bacb4fc7---vagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de45de4712c5673d3d983470d8acdad/xalagugelobitikewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=jlpt+n4+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000bc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC5D 10384 bytes
SHA-256: a240a242d9962659a1e78f03a26b3543266fe863b2cec10466dbf592d85f20c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3DB 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 704522b589a5458deb45cda33caf1e346bc1b60c51057b4f58e00eff166f6d1c
font_02_sfnt_off000101c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1