Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5178179dbdcbdda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:22:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 17b793785e4a3c16110d4fc2e8428e7c SHA-1: 0287451e2086e1d72aa9a4fa81b4c75add98f5a3 SHA-256: a5178179dbdcbdda35d83e73e446f86ebf07576e56eb5459727f5de399b3ceff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalemar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d540b1fa7087908c5553b3b5944eac0/52657851266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfb52cbb3d6---21653759038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q88fr7a0r012vu1931albk3db2/41427572358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/40637424753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/mipuwide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d255f1ca6e---buzafonijepipiwaxilavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-hung.com/userfiles/file/25305345239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2djtdgvd15d2ivqq2kdikgjd6/32859682132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5e85bd8e8fa74c25b76e2593543e3e/83780235533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50224259598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/78914377471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47dde8721148e03edd5c6fa07216c251/38155290140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/23960135044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/fowikebaropabojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/17400549488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41hg299fr1r0f2f3vn13blke36/47683208931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubibofuvixavineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibelijosoduledanoran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lt64r1rc5pp531rmb30qeft2i/15858098204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27c9139e31---77921499763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210724040951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifogirakogozidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/xarodagejazito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=personal+effectiveness+questionnaire+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_off0000d6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BF 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 90b507b92097f3d5e1fb499838ebfa52bce20c7ac849942a6989f6f3970915d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000effe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFE 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 9dea101db40827786d42ba82b205683cbb241128fc9c97236593a37ea1f69ddd
font_02_sfnt_off00011d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1