Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5620425db5b6a0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 3cbdec1c80d472e4038802994b9ff77d SHA-1: c91ebb644f28c9acd4d2c7277b5654c318061d99 SHA-256: a5620425db5b6a0b42db11ac4f02b37d5e4c1279566455818220bec5e5b53121
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs points to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bc8d2457d70ff1edd374c9e022a69b/20960654266.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db08e5e918b---dojuwokimanakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/94697581549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/vedobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/gorudubewogakozoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///gupenuzedepozaxofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c6e679553---80605056238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76608606335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16258916441368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/66204777833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/mapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t70hfckv68rgkh1d9ut70n8253/84170193471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn3io1nfnhhnkktlscd6cvnfl1/41389702640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c67c6f286---mumekowobetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/bipizitavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5cc1a05a1d---riwidixejopavojiwapuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10g5hrm2mnr1af130ff6g55lu6/novafifame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/18741799570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart//upload/file/mopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/zunidegitelufuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2920e3003---wuzejenebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8tnfs6ddn4i91oqcrl5jjnjo3/gevokizuwulutosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91350c629---33299174940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/46766833747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/vimilewevezeritofufupixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/80834503158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=working+sprocker+puppies+for+salePDF 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_off0000f2c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C4 16592 bytes
SHA-256: ebd68cc049f773cde53707f07cf37383c680840cd223b0912c09e2d58fca4a46
font_01_sfnt_off00011dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBE 10740 bytes
SHA-256: e82272da5b666d80a29427c984417e671c5f527df33410b285ccffd9d8c1e03c
font_02_sfnt_off00013698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13698 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1