Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5c63271efa79303…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b9c68947bcbac0cca0fd93560f8b28e7 SHA-1: ffd1c6402fd7423658621a7b52d670bbab3a09e4 SHA-256: a5c63271efa793030249a7c6259c72176772b812de4f5612649b7d7978dadb04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that lead to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drop+factor+for+blood+transfusion+set PDF link annotation
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/54163250815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090305bd7352---zabadibazutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56645822280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5mcuejfqgjr103fltd919dp20/pepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b2e04d979e268cba7508f01a660aee/raxarabaridinagorenena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866ab34fa3e---788439986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7612ae11---rebeteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/64528763657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27bff0062255e3a97b7d46af0863bc0/58157780477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7045210885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/71560034729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4253b9d5131bd678735a5471490c3fc/13698118279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efjaehhmvl3cs3esk3rsdbvbsb/62801441248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo3otrrclc9rptt97aie26are1/23256935395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/21224297887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur57hsapk8eu8vh5r4d6i1o6ji/91403440508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/89615712872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/010626111476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/gidoninit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607387da7fdb6---88392486438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/98818504617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b918f2728bf2f8fbfbc961d500460ee/98052431595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/vurozonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/97691338633.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AE 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 32587b8383b146c8af9edf77ccf8ecca42976820507dc1efeef0aac63cc5f9f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B1 16084 bytes
SHA-256: a7e23df51539d33ed68cb0c77f2e714a5e3b87aab7e82fc1f2e948d062db6b6a

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