Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5330f6297ca48e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 04:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5a40a15b739be5f891b4e2bfdaad88e0 SHA-1: c7de083513709f47b0153b30e82d8886c6e6889b SHA-256: a5330f6297ca48e3b5089a1692cbeedecff79623f7c82a4014f70f3e541e512c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9880

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://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/sijixozegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6e6f3247d145f769cbf9b60e6939de/litonosixotuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/tividesijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da0c9d0e5d62305c8e7e6fdb586e395/80729324642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakudibiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/tazozelimukapujixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/wixuzuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea51bdd2c555f03f934fa4bdcee0334/51716937583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/zavinodibugosezunemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608558ec36563---simivesudidexapiguxexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf5074804f6---xerilalebofexovetibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72c606c8f1afd910418ebd51774e336f/59275175842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607607e4a9fdd---95482658646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/kunopoxalovokekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/rewoxerubiwufalexasurane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7704c5c70---17569332883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608331e98eb49---nadaxofujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/9105308743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b38517459b---13081413204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/pedijalavowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/1544937166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlqiescklh2jt6crs3osorl067/dunidafezumewoporuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/selukuvatera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711edf57a8a---10559377993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fe1abe0d3eab6175fa5b2bf5c804b5/5341368146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/93893601424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/22563713802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=plantilla+hoja+de+rifa+de+100+numeros+para+imprimir+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_off000114f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D04 19268 bytes
SHA-256: 016082f8d4041c59b3cbc3ec1d4a671e4256a98a113596fdd7f0ca40faee58fc
font_02_sfnt_off00015e75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E75 11168 bytes
SHA-256: d84a3df7359141e7618f2df203855b9e01e60c8c6f553cb3a4df8ca7bfd769f3