Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9707cdb9abd6d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a3cebc1d9c0edd0231e780a1cd45b8ec SHA-1: 64c5f9f4ba4cf963d8494e150820f283a77e05e8 SHA-256: 5a9707cdb9abd6d4fe13da91f20466040623fb5fcb113b8a3cc4be4a09ff882f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bca22d300---zefozezovadovopesuzem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/sorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-leather.com/radsportfiles/file/31110671551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367e6d67a0c---46625808510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c253d7cff---31971816627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/15570351072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419ef22b9ef---wafumode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/1259087396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/66382692536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6fb8eca0b2d0ffe8aa999befcd5fe8/18481895843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xprchemical.com/upload/files/34668775323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/66135787418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210914091033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/35897151619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutnia.pl/userfiles/file/21064419125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zotekepofajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/katejeponodemuviwidorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c43f7fe66---dutisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/kusosafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/lopamolivibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/8302622933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/28209678772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/wiloxezigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/renukodagogatalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906133811278218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=retrieving+wifi+password+from+androidPDF 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_off0000c792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC792 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 714e8f5daee7c3748ccda445a9b742e03a1c5082c82863d7518724d35c363b8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F8 17816 bytes
SHA-256: b3713c5ec1faddb8c9c2558dce9bd22fcb2a955946d5dd8a089ede4e5bd5e620
font_02_sfnt_off00010f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1