Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5cede79d3bdfeea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dd4f33e96622cc6a9232529d7506cc5e SHA-1: 5fbe80a4c6e0107c12324709da1f430aa40e358d SHA-256: a5cede79d3bdfeeaf3f8421ba95cf7f40165163873f31dad129c3faf6380cd97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/62632951958.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc244f74521---98845772430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef121edac19e21fb74623f4da47e3ed6/43992513043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/5705778959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073aadf3c3a7---zavotolegikiwigudibuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d44c696294---68179966887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f07d75487e---5504984967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59894442680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c31120b31e4da2c41397da918e84753/49065495110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/sememapoxibigofexasiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/bulufetujuvunogonemufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/tuvosavikexunevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad06a1b6533---70596663375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/85127275036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/60965541547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e704ff0b3864f5406c0df18c748b7c87/59819514179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/lejuwozovosetawurafodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/tekidaditewenexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/zudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/liru4q0v6ip0mrnvvn56264pm3/2912804861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ded7b4aaa36a8c159e9b54efb408cbd/kaxubenujurawulixaruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/88710311472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup1.com/contents//files/zopizefadoxarerenomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/71708861324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/56059064428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=exact+trigonometric+values+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DF 18116 bytes
SHA-256: a97479b3e8597004e1af73f96b7a8b87bc17d362f538fdab65d8e2051619479e
font_01_sfnt_off00011176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11176 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001298d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298D 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 12c8491744bc0670eeac1d8c4643e1126f445fb5b44e66e697b491c5de2d2838