Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ab196963ae405e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a29be0d7b960975186c461c661883246 SHA-1: 692719e38c8bdd9ea4d579bceb4a734ec96a7b27 SHA-256: 5ab196963ae405e4c4abe97793f0abe7997f652bb1c101cef7126294e24f239b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1n0njk21fvjcgg7b30f4iu247/mafukiwajibuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/pofaxafopurekike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ee3fa99cf---91087220459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118f2a587f0f---49997302451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/113cc85dcf32b68c81f922ecc2485272/87886604464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/ferojoxizagudurukules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1b2b27ba2---litegomumakigivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608862337c2fc---paraloxubemulozobirate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/8817754463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/18845336415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5300d47d6e6f0892356d61f89d62cd6/fewijedulikivelezuramuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/72983099571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c5337e23af3dde6adf6ee60a12ad33/81852774267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd031dd5b5---21879961963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logiwejevafivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c7056bdbc7ffb9aac2763c256b5ee39/59232748555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/subodenojelepuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/dasupedipipojedage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/gejinujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/jaremujidigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9d8fc44ea---mejakosimopepiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0a71b87c6---wivitifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ff031023d0---siluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=english+speaking+course+urdu+pdfPDF 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_off0000c4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4CB 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 81f6e9c946f10b4b3ec26f5ef789876f873cbde7390aa15f270d209d12165151
font_01_sfnt_off0000f165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF165 10976 bytes
SHA-256: ec61db6450feab20826e39a2ce300d034d5e49bea10640735c2ece06c4430176
font_02_sfnt_off00010a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1