Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ad02d603efedd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:43:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d8bc02b8e571b11ab225ab9c73c3c62a SHA-1: b1a5c15892188304096527340b822650f1dc582b SHA-256: a5ad02d603efedd5557f0702e6c51912c3e762cafe961e18de8ccb15bd7b897b
164 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 contains an embedded JavaScript stream and a link farm that utilizes compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a document that ultimately leads to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gemcom.org/userfiles/file/7318656382.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hpcad.pl/Upload/file/93084242583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/guvivifejejetiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/60003122507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bee53f5e7---jegododijidexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/76006099563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/62717769967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/lerobifokodibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/40269531720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/fobifunilesola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1b20da2e5---95252198942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/padutemupeluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidavasotegafobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/83531699846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/91368548354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawibekosafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6f96b20855bf66090ba9b0e9485eee/72827572805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/14837020750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e63e5bd84088769be88d2930bb498da6/50115913839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bo5mvlb.com/data/editor/file/bolaxedadimive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=english+is+official+language+of+indiaPDF 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_off0000d994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD994 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A6 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 65dde5c4a5a306a0e74ac4ccc5d0b34301dd19e483c7a5a64a5085d8514da6db
font_02_sfnt_off00012035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12035 10640 bytes
SHA-256: ecc1b757af83e62dfe528246bf07cb48ea05a9ec10ea9bd332991225334bcd87