PDF malware analysis — malicious · a5a15b9d258c9fbc

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16

MD5: 73d162e0419a817172c46ce5b22e1872 SHA-1: afa2bcac5d6df8915cdbc95ec09c5e4bdfb7f8b8 SHA-256: a5a15b9d258c9fbc64426e443c06f3e8e948118eca8a05edfe225626db0b5732

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to leverage these external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078986387fe8---givezadaxuwexujijevidoluw.pdf In PDF document text
- http://plafondchauffant.fr/img/user/file/vamesasosovufesem.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/8884712236.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/3383922892.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08b7c65286---xalabanaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27804989427.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b58dd2994---33792729712.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8550a6266---mefabugazejajotev.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/55206235406.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/sijajizizumaxetowem.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98539373863.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d5f8a700a---kojipuniwidirabuwanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/13129420130.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xakax.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/3806507479.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://asustainable.com/global/file/16313667764.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123685d03bdb---zewof.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/82109292115.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23d5051b39---97294598500.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/49840833535.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b59c5c0705---15486163355.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3678cdb49---fojakobajewo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca1d20ba5f---jujudetafolo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/wakunejun.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/gononulu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/14725868130.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://exoticland.bg/upload/files/files/19253967807.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+ventilador+de+techo+hunterPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000c9a8.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A8	10460 bytes
SHA-256: `056d0e52e6533c55a0b833788c5c9307fa359fea3dc97d512f1fede36929b034`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000e149.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE149	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off0000f95b.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95B	20104 bytes
SHA-256: `eff9fe58070f887654455513895dffc34ee481207117b5e4a051a629465333c2`

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