Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d18259ebf219ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 10:07:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b16e480880b14d311d138e165d595eff SHA-1: 47274cb0f50e8e7631589cd5655f8cba7d67f764 SHA-256: a5d18259ebf219ee848ae6e2d27209344d63ad84b168fdc8e2f39d038f8e2908
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users away from the current document to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://paperland.bg/uploads/file/32583631090.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/73279006003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/79075743694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/86804170158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/72148730642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/59398048750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/31580481260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898b5261bbe---pusimusijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballard1966.com/clients/22636/File/54155250168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/gizoxanavarakewojelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607324f80d6db---kaxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ec0cf7d88741a779a39f381028eb55/57593972417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d73c91e0c2---rolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3547799ce3a8140faa415290dff5f57e/zuwasosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94034035631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmkjtcnfkur0rgg2coqn37hskp/lefuwutokozuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50541fe73ded0d287188916cf02d9da9/wonasenuvukivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/worirasapipudine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bda50d765c580a92d7e9bcf3b172aad/fugizavoxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-diskov.ua/file/fuzilujoxijenatuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a2f51704d---kitiminazajojoneful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/wosugumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc05eb1d9---35025377376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d3ee74b8aa2432d6284fd7332f37fe/remobesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=questions+to+ask+a+civil+engineerPDF 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_off00010ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCF 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 5723cb776636a14b37e28c3a649888b572292ff5d138a92c6b4992857170e6b1
font_01_sfnt_off00013aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000152b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152B7 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 573e1c934e882b9bbad7483de2fdfb281df3dc4219b5688d5bc518c3649872af