Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5b4ed1d963a611e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e9c68d17726976315ac456af5bf77e6d SHA-1: 6ae952018274c0322f8d9a97669e0dfcb8b03e96 SHA-256: a5b4ed1d963a611e35f4c88ea0de4138315c0ce09c3905815297cc8bbdb8ca20
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 Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting users through these links, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zion+canyon+campground PDF link annotation
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9819e3afe8ab5a7e9e3f27889885d2/11091753031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/jilidajupuxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/66151079389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/98818542903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d31930add33970f3b998b7b7517e02da/22044737046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/51793694018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083640a1d119---miperesazubabimobezebesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adc430bbec---bawaluzavoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/927v23moc9segm1sopqum09h9m/nesenorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8c8a0cf6---lafujawesujoxujodime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkdsreoldh551fi5l81105p0f1/bevidavafemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f4e7f3b2c813d8f767f54a3f5e9743b/desawegejakovivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scfpdnkvnr1kdslqiivckuukh6/36559383608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/1212454214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/33652865527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/12910724978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490f48fcb5---labinesiwenulijasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/22581290423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubkdeedmpu6eedqnjt0iri5m8a/rapotudovemovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7084e8af18---53974673265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb4e017388363a24cfd526b4fb9e031/xudetufifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee6b0c55165785feda93d460554b578/61483819446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///tisakulofifomixeruxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/21914414640.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_off00010ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA6 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 81c11e0f51dad8d54a534094273ab21704fa17a54736fba0332ac8370ebaab95
font_01_sfnt_off0001390f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390F 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 1e032387da48157fd23acb61a6471f448f8818ac3d35d827e2d1a4ea377a28ed
font_02_sfnt_off000150fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1