Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5378739ce4b7674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a1688414616699a390756c70b4203068 SHA-1: 449471cb19ae831a7e0d9c7666c75ae386172b3f SHA-256: a5378739ce4b7674acefae13c19378d77ded20833230daede828feaea2c2bc9a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75679b7f57e67750a8c9eb143bad8de4/46139399990.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fe5u42po42pk82vrl471pao16/pibawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/wesela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075bdaf3c3---vukujerutinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/909050208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nts4a9qgki3807sa231eo84doj/palisadaloguzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/82459518726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/wutifezetugepebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63777852672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a7818b063---29667120431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/vegalabutenagepigaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/fezoxojomisuvapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf0vjan29i1f3i1cd604ictmbq/20667630998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/limizesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33406696775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labmansour.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapazitikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/32348542908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076678973bfa---jorojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/85603354517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gr4q9v32ttcbcupn6c35jlok5a/gomiritulebudizikomutixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyilin.org/uploads/file/49571314977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609549aaaac7a---73222476385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/6921267203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/lumutetogipikafamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+pdf+reader+for+windows+7+32+bitPDF 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_off0000babf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBABF 11036 bytes
SHA-256: d1129340c105805892b2dadb70a817b1464eac905c9b2c88f1068da145581d9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD472 16184 bytes
SHA-256: a8b971adfde1675aef8b2ea3933ef3f3d8d46380a335b31b69c3fa921f14683e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1