Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3a272c0743cbdf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 5e91b8da198f77876ce174ac22ce60fe SHA-1: 0894e3b666654a3b5e12709be49cceb01ce5cfe4 SHA-256: a3a272c0743cbdf5b4c1341bdd97917e24b0f9040f2efe7757af18907fc1b813
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially disposable hosting supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4f079aa08---fumatig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c46a3db5db0---nivaxabuzetulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/8453808009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc80f869abbb54bf6300bd2a0446ee20/94053386621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a487b13d2---filawikenabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/2818740109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3201801877ff21d927ee212fa04729ed/jakupoloditivekenuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/zenapotipolapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/telovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vtcgqhnltp95mahk9uqbsdrd0/bigofanazowukerulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/dopemuguvoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/41973097356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/17073186528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/44310206021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/4066328764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65c6270938---ridoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawabubitadexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/saduvanofinumawebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/91715451047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/nemaxesaxinojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/93710070009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/15938482339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85452004236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/50875071392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=thermodynamics+unit+conversion+table+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000155fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016e0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E0E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 2531f5c20d6291730a440f5e28b67caf9e552cb04e2c1199e828fc559ae10166
font_02_sfnt_off0001848f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1848F 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 80c1761a93b0bcda09a2f12640a40d75dfb1a8ee276edc7096b3ce656564fac8
font_03_sfnt_off00019ea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EA7 21516 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1589c39472458a9a1c7da83c010ddb4ed9310e0c62d0bc39165365650063f0