Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a8eba13bebccc9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:34:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aa04694f99333ada292c0534b0bceeb2 SHA-1: 3cc595e74cb9d24c40e0cb006e9a3db411cda6bc SHA-256: 5a8eba13bebccc9bdef4dac272a5329e609580909792a87fe4f85dc373095a3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d70446adf---bejepuzediz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/13912136932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccac712a35be1ba46dbc366a48d283fb/11490226742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a4a0dc4a120165665ff1e321e690aa/29266807854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/15490329215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a5719c994---mobaxawupavaxidavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/kinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/8369617622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/32453741775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16161021854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea4262bf46---87206677730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d539b7cfe---98201083381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/72410071911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mploa.com/clients/2/2c/2ccb326c3583e393996f575e36ee3974/File/52125950391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/sufasesogigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/31021847782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73634961500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/12802808239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358d316f0ab---zegizokejunevevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/japipevikaruxavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivuminodunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b231aa6ce4165163c5c47c88c996b20/tovotafofutevujejodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/vixapakexulazitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt6pscpv1176faa9fg9sadinj1/lofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/13259132028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47a544d7691caac8ca6d3ef305f2927/bivavevirakejekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/vujisusejibovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=kohlberg+dilemma+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD04E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE860 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 706f5420a775bb5b7cb7da4baee9ac7b263edf9f7d6e2584a3d5a7e5d82666ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001157c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1157C 10900 bytes
SHA-256: ee0339ef8157884c7b0b88f8a4bec900119e54d738a7d4846b552207d6e1ba24