Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a5aeb03526fd5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:55:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 484c4fe44d5fc149b66b006c935b8eac SHA-1: 0e30c03b380a596a5dac5dee98cbf1d1f6276f62 SHA-256: a2a5aeb03526fd5c85ee312f51631cd5b01e18a3814365f5aba095bd92443d55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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 http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738350c6349---37498577746.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051600585873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/25853841756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fr06rnd452gueci154ntid6tic/16418291161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc43471a5f---33559151679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr1qc8e088apnhn30bahh004q3/suzevevojugapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/72124073154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811de6b7073---fudojenuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/wodikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f29785be08---kanitokolesuvuxenuzeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/romifutizafavalizixeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/mebozonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081437cab4c1---60040188918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cae36ee7a2---luseboruvejujumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/67169029626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/wemomifipajegomadojofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d0e9d39227b540eecab18f087c905e/24533262306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/tixugisasukubuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v180vmu6vo0n29j1s6g2tfn2d/30445024089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/65123034858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33e3189c6e---58710092148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/fuxijakajobibagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf3a04029e---nijuzudijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn7itjptbv3k9ultpoedv63da6/2528641315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/80750801239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=food+chain+transfer+of+energyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011c06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C06 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 977be2daca865e1890da06fb8d2c8a748e8ca8ef45cf49f60ee0b3a3c5d9f94e
font_01_sfnt_off0001383e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15050 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 74b0cceb33b3025904785a7d9330b641d49f8484a86d4fc590497e583a238236
font_03_sfnt_off00017daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DAA 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0e5ebe97a5f0a9dff3b26a878323221ed57838e37db55c8a00151857d8f0ee