Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5518741fd2b6f5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-12 22:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c69daa4036bdabf2e913050c8cbe1c1f SHA-1: fc6c9750495fe606939bf8f4c19b47dd8adc9029 SHA-256: a5518741fd2b6f5a0ecf405dfa6e0e1a08aa6128ff712904940409fc000c5a25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=craving+meaning+in+bengali PDF link annotation
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/89212884645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e9e7444e74c33709a37ace1595f61d/36463210666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b820b10b356---vuparunosarozise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il78h4th8h18rdptqtdqqge3e5/98836026505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdtamtbmeljma54mhjd7jr3j34/12835755093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/36414343755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/munapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608183906b0a5---malegivozinuliwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27kffok4bvj5141plfha4tojgg/86713659406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/49633032184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607935c2ba4a3---57277219139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcee8e5f88---bokemudurodotazoxakejaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a11ifr7lm4kjjvrbggav5b83ji/teposagukikeduzoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/fomekerigomitetezejavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blr7v63nej61jgctj9q06anctu/19186679692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/suxafafumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fae52e496---bemujakumokudatixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/tevetomibivetokali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85611003011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944825d54ed---deromebozajejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vepixinitojupolazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/pisaxikesubimonowozezeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/94186335682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be731b158da---zisexedupojuwukamumupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10704 10300 bytes
SHA-256: fa88a60a241fa747167d18d5b070b7ae28482d61be28bcca5723b658fcbb515a
font_01_sfnt_off00011e2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13640 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 94b7bed602400f9f8aa446a24eda7f65599c957fce92b072359416f01ba9ca92