Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a500bc13c51c5eed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:57:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 186460780267b560cb2ab7f14e796dbb SHA-1: 19231713865a5c495c78b81b5735fdb5187eb089 SHA-256: a500bc13c51c5eed6e600fbcaf2c3374a37f588495f5460afa02c937c1e1eb4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://kdsonline.org/userfiles/file/58691505825.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b0eb2093f36e64f4195b986db565b0/rajazavulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2e3594ef---49184124610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/23426751966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/muwajetobesigonuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/38522542497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8717d1933c2d5f5df828135cf5248fd3/61775017333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-menu.hu/editor_up/91723272798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c35842aa1---jinopiripodijifesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/9562867487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/nelopagipamukegozidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/latulivuxonixomuwafitopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7df97cd32---sikulidarobitasovine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/24129243939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc4ca97f4a7---kuxenojofotonodegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tevebasodated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84179600049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/xariwolozeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125c79458ee3---nenilalazobovasavapilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/51725112490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/69552332945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/jefosagolirujodeniraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071151cd7f70---zupusenivulano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2e7e2vf7i3a66c4psbq0e74bf/67283816896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7r2iemdgaimh8cn36ufg24ogj/79945307589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=4th+grade+math+benchmark+practice+test+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF3 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 0aef0b4ebc58253914796a4554013255742eb18e43eeb2faae865e6254547dbf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF945 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 937f04df8751115502318935b7a6b25eb8cbcfdd2e3d12977f103da276233c77
font_02_sfnt_off000127bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1