Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ac850a9635f37d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 6f99b60797e8169ba3dc00a98e95e49a SHA-1: 023a80800d503810218f8a1b4639e986ed4367a8 SHA-256: a5ac850a9635f37d6ccbb90be105a325b8fdb8918f710b403d89eb5da5c435cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The file's structure and embedded URLs indicate it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pistola+imbel+9mm+m973+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/3005510566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072db147c719---bunijilidurodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6dcec4288---korunarakujabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/77577281850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/78410154920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/mudoveruwilunukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/16398452928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/283d402d04ac86155b9c3033b35083de/44988615976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/gotanadotisanulasotesemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/11659240595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/33050064520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/jumifabezewobinupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/gepusikenivepiresivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/88329563646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fa763c32d---64194280271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/welokeruvosilowibobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rooptex.com/uploads/71062826196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46fe19552312dae3961459f05bcf656/tolusufikuxiwotedoxasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/peluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/lovawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e7ec1a43---63053158342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d48ddd22b194d0df4d0c52f13a0475/zewimuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/96457321496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39f221c178ed3422e275c31211546ee/4181239050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3697f0087a46b13b7975dd87b75a373/8327246806.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_off0001505a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1505A 20216 bytes
SHA-256: 6d68da738e72b2fa81332e44d55a96d3c86c71265e92fbedbf3a4ab26c432c28
font_01_sfnt_off00018560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18560 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019d77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D77 10800 bytes
SHA-256: e57d0403f3221bd11fa3f63b611627b639d5a5ddd117ed2a5dd466c5d6a31c21