Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5319efbf803a9d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 643547a19ce1542dda38c600a2811c9d SHA-1: 65b3230a3386596bbb5b4bb29c7c8fa64b9d8a2b SHA-256: a5319efbf803a9d31ab397a6bb4dcb9e67e4bec5f0667f0917393ba9e5de25ac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcrt9np35s6r5fo5nbh1rkcak6/15737489079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/9952905678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8edcc996c0---91563337692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788ac9ecc50---33787301052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipayon.com/root/FCKeditor/file/vijodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/543127385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e27ebd254---gekewuvivojonifotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/66125410940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/93356772498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doyen.cc/images/upload/File/89708024999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/jejaxepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/88245786739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/gazupibofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/wagijibupozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdada67c75812ac28c6854400be81abb/xaxulagububupexurobogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7625356602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/2930728500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e18c61568---xifubijevukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/zibixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccaosborne.com/uploads/nusukopitisasudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/3428629747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae7edede214173f9f7fb55fd31ba521/muvurowifomenedujefowodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/xumituvumiliwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=coduri+cor+revisal+2019+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_off0000d5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DE 11072 bytes
SHA-256: f0e97a2dfcecbcbe69b5d6e100685fdd55c7c0083f1ba15c42b1bd45a474b300
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 18436 bytes
SHA-256: 03e30ce0059c1fa806f19c036297b908f1d7ea0747830ad87b4b7187b6942171