Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a435c7f5faf1df79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5f200902b477906dce6d18da215caa37 SHA-1: d1a81e010655bf7c37946b445710a80e56acce33 SHA-256: a435c7f5faf1df794f94277bdd0e96b1815d0ffe6a8ba56738b988067c0b50e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/41385784560.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/kumozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/vupila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce23865d55---52716299356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11293f73edd36d3da7190ac2794914b1/jagonaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e0db4315ed53845a02d85539dca1969/xanosejepenaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca7db2dd27ff9974e08b789270630265/wifegimetufitegijavusemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/boxojodobesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607484556c418---motonobixiperakavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/ferup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e740e31f0ac3992f49da422c5a8ec70a/mujutogolopetobinafamijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087430ecce26---6964429534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da022807ec---kokosevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807dde28f579f0c5be22ed1ef2bdc941/sosomukodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/zedinuvolekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/15499123152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92dada15258cde154ff0877bfa4739bf/xumuwumebibebabubefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3627ce8646515887d888d79a9cb5b52/xewefebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/berikituwudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cac5c8fe607b37c74df823da01287ae/54655019464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc58bc3a47---xuredubewetaligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79824a8759e0f6039687b5096bb55a8b/11218337551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4dad0cbd3---98415069851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/85055715864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7ev0964smh5mjv6oc6lsm9bl5/vupumozutokitaxojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=baked+apple+slices+with+walnutsPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FB 18972 bytes
SHA-256: d5f466d58d5da312e632abb96cc7e72fa43287ae8226a6ecfa62185bc4e5751a
font_01_sfnt_off00012216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12216 10720 bytes
SHA-256: cd811641276f789538c6eaf286f94caaa181a8f9860d01f96238a9321d5f6ccf
font_02_sfnt_off00013abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1