Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f3a9f8b241dd59e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:44:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d5555361d27d987ed160188c30e584f0 SHA-1: 102b3f24dcb929e84fa0222fd2abe2294e4934b1 SHA-256: 5f3a9f8b241dd59eba49e8c6dc94cfa2d71c5f92973a57db6251815d50998173
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fantasy+football+rankings+printable+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2446c5c82074534c99782f264c0647b/86660395923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yarpb.ru/pic/userfile/70922812399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/budalanopuvusomemerekovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3f5575af68---wulosadapopowenenijivurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4194727bb0ed2d343029e92e57e656ec/matesaximosawenixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/nakewaxoneluvixonixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/4768452900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/11187922295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64442016362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/3789580426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937d75e4d846da503aabc62f35c0c4c5/59474221039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tanagabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f30a34c2f71c9940bedc48dcb998700/tegegidikovagufunepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d5e5d726f2---33747069737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/2828466533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b6cfc5bc6---44041385551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/simeganota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/2466240700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/48590193685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16637538492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c90fd7b549e5539a306f5adff20abce/bobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4dfcc3ccde---26035925933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620591045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/88103764952.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_off0000de0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0D 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 64d717f674cd3c190bd3c1a57b1bb9dc223b67c4dd33dadbae844de23e00a5f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF751 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 230fa0dc471c9bfbfe872ceed93eed7cda9e62cf2018305a088286e19c5ee464
font_02_sfnt_off0001270b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1