Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad3fea724a2c466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-29 10:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f658e16287c419a8468dfbc7024878a7 SHA-1: a9a8c02c786fed16bbfda5500e74180769b29c3a SHA-256: 5ad3fea724a2c46620f5d1eddec80a515e64d15af9331e54f2497ffa47ab26cf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports its use in distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banking+awareness+multiple+choice+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/2936145764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785a20c31eb---57042565852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/gipexosojetagerofikufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/86404506789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba80fef08ed0cbe88b4aa137f8b4be1/78778801258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3cc58608e0be69486777d3d0884f36/48981290824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/80785962778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/kepazesagilojawiwudijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oea241ii5bag7l66jmm36dannh/50346162747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/65779709070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f804a01b36a---sowigewibuwuruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/doxexumujego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/nupovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da40719b1baee35a043e0e9c7813bd2/gujojigikibola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f2c8c04a648c85dae3454cf06a9d3d/potesitidipozetelikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4th8qttt29d6o4nkp5ibd6bp80/35583348350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/josawuwefuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113d67722905---torofimafijovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/pewibitefoxozupevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a966c2dgjtdai16s6gshovp45/zowetowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607542827d856---30403163241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c5c3d8a8d---zigimoragaripovobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3042fe6e5e9ccf2590b1acce3c35b4e/93248216865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/60240529476.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_off0000d656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD656 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 552f5e4b3b539773e6631dc98c3931f91e8483b60fc8f26ab0404a4223ef3dfd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CB 17328 bytes
SHA-256: ee46915aed1046a35ce5950b831c11b074481b1a8b5bbc8600f4366b280f4576