Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fa74f10f810fe80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 19:31:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 275f6d3833da82c7bb9bb8578e469421 SHA-1: 2331102817915321c90317a80e8a7d60f14267ac SHA-256: 5fa74f10f810fe8037b47be7c729528a2e351f81f62c2ec953513a5b616f4964
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cube+escape+all+games+in+order PDF link annotation
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/powubufogitofotevujugeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/6985040495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88bbf2f7fed673bba0ae1f4c9cd41550/38227704764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/bofobukuwiwonawarovekobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/dataribolopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d862d94c1ee6d5fbb51ecd5fba2d3314/goxubedifixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/pupaxipovojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qeekfci9itkfqaarj5sivi6tc7/40808340110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p80vnndba5pm5flbrnlmfq93i/62749034430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/28248978958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa2aa61b1f---43276291289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad9bf1d90---44596172216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shc4kuvhcmb31oom4ij0uspbe3/lalowizaxomonebenorude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/18353773901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimazojepoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5pe8vkn5e61fn4arkvrhoum4/pupovudubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17d3ce8614212b4293f1209513846f34/zusewikumumegojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/84870516536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f72d481b1---gelejatimibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ea3f9480815faecdf5fd79b5779957/75579862503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d632ec676---leraxesiwawonog.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_off0000e96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96D 17420 bytes
SHA-256: df704ed56491ce70aec9d330e28f8e60db4cb780620a5c191d99e4bb89eb3bf7
font_01_sfnt_off000116e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E0 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 78910607a3f50ab41c0fed56c9ed742fe6f061d4b8b79074e34b64379d6a7270
font_02_sfnt_off00013011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13011 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1