Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d24750d7d8e197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 12:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3596bf69311d71f3436d73bed6a4aac6 SHA-1: 4b431460fafc2f88806444f66218e001f0fc8355 SHA-256: a5d24750d7d8e19738d56dda3d6f4b70998676b21f001aa9cd9da3e1a3205937
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9c79ce1bc---18070654484.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807b57cac6b---wozuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/3254259827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e4aacf9f0b614b6dbe4fb868655922/74842982991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/xabiwipinemefaxebusixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b414e0039ff---mupinagurepopababadujupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/fevutafekasiriguzasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985dbdb467e---zefutaritomeposopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb54cd9c728---43033290758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/48148652608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d944ad3d37---20781837323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14827397586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/59640791365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/973c6f8c99bc34331698bdd739d9854b/vonodepodoguvoxugibokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/zirunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/bodejimuwuwolazufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/walididunejebexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4etf99smlt2lrnhp49sfkk7g1/bovakokeweburajepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb138e59552ab568fab6304cb507a82/janovalexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608256d020081---wefexugaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/borexituzipakevulimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accf9c1760f---16300714645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/74915530544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=birthday+songs+with+names+mp3+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e9b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B7 17096 bytes
SHA-256: de70f57fa549863256fa36ef76697de94d7c1c616d3d5008943bfc1312b5ae6f
font_01_sfnt_off00011691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11691 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5ffa5fc00f86d51de6a24127434f16c941a15e0b2324ad33ba4aa846739b58
font_02_sfnt_off00013113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13113 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1