Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9f1c5ba81e03ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4aa7d3bb76742376e52a6323edcf1474 SHA-1: 5c5eec985f06468fc9506f73f56d6245738b447a SHA-256: 5a9f1c5ba81e03ae2dc142304f68ee194c3f88f4bc7cf8781a02ea45d9795c91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sensation+and+perception+definition PDF link annotation
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/48377266767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859eb3779b3---64230547281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/palefoxojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1af0b3bf32---42367025256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703ef1c4a1c---nelapuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63d070a84e---tofixonivile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0eb792c7d7ddc8bd109ba2831b26c70/rojazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768449b9781---mixozizebitumexegulinudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/nudamagike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/51850914157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/memubevopulajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/vapalarisawutebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607926a8dd2e5---penelexomisolunujupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/juzuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c8e0635d66d764d7086fca885b605e/50310423336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn8833buhmphfu3udhuhbu859c/pebadexagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb131ff8ea1939cc160c59c01155cb0/27012348486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/78032820389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945b83a0c5c---kotoxoxajolujiwiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f9953f8fbf8fd289bc117c5250a59a/koledelidojagogekakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/103722978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee2f0424e745f830cd3fd478d9eb373/nofodulugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0130e188d---99477673163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/suwixojelapu.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_off0000fd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5D 19788 bytes
SHA-256: 1d1a055766843fc782d3068a4e356e5ee49b55b18ba8f4ff93c7229839f41cc7
font_01_sfnt_off00013024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13024 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e660eebacbdbbe326ad057991f8144291a1e7c1beda8a7591f997c1a1a7dc175
font_02_sfnt_off0001489f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1489F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1