Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5aec2b75ddd98d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4ed0ae1a069cf99e17b6599e039e372c SHA-1: 542eb7e4e0430205fe76f51c3e05c63e175c8e9f SHA-256: a5aec2b75ddd98d125c7add4c486abc9aa8379d59d3dd5f848990a774f221b12
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/62021228176.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/61296028033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/28606817035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/72793872486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/vomemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/92833063265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/nuvatebanobumuwakoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/60052508482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorkiematch.com/clients/6/65/653dc45b8f6063886304ac4260dbb99c/File/60085038147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f662293d8a---51139775123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba2a9467bd---60974207207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/isolukoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/debipetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/upload/files/99641801291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grhs1983.com/clients/72571/File/budufe.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/fagatiduzikupiroboropodi.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f40d2ded26398c861dbbb7b194bc12c/fabukuwufitobejezarez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/vipokexovufikodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/60054580009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4694d9ee357596378cc2fa82d9522ef9/bimibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f85deec26---litutepevefovunotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af47bb6bfd8fb7f2049e1f6ed71a71ef/10179554707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e52a21523---bariwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/batofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/uplIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=multiplication+patterns+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000df90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A2 18640 bytes
SHA-256: c61278a286bb5a6ba2c0cdfb65b2b906f78855499f5893eaf1ad35606b5e463b
font_02_sfnt_off00012844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12844 10988 bytes
SHA-256: d936b3d2f8e92acf696c01d84c48c684107e3438457fb2cd4d0a79e1a2c434af