Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5778e0ebe05493c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9ee42c8d029c8e9f31a0cd2d7fc9f1f8 SHA-1: 6deec06a7b35ade929fb79ef70d6dbd5ee8a7e02 SHA-256: a5778e0ebe05493c14372ce16694abe54adddb88ff2e96f0041d1d9f7874128d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e5d6afe391fe3a815fc3e8ae5ee59c/vujufumoxufubigozaruve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071444d0a4e7---rifurigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160757cfb6993f---dijuxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4fc4b6153862a4db7d35e39017f0b6/43325061052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/bezunuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756ca46bd34---15362974561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/figow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/kidegegumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemtoanhaiphong.vn/upload/files/sikugaperaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/35667137369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d862e7341c---76132543062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/nubafugikebasufigura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a7b9c22f2---84310169027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0ad24142d---74859674673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8f3df0a2e---pedagibazome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=nominal+ordinal+interval+and+ratio+levels+of+measurementPDF 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_off0000d924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD924 10656 bytes
SHA-256: adf659886336c4f0a75d4248995709ff1dfefca5f97042c4783a16e77dff1561
font_01_sfnt_off0000f182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF182 17732 bytes
SHA-256: deab6176d5f2ea2652b84e5f07445bd48666f43c1047615408fab514d36a1dbd
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1