Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5dda43d3107105a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 17:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fb99f92aece00bdee345709c78096602 SHA-1: f8da3c818a7b09b77c2be30957b219641aef45c5 SHA-256: a5dda43d3107105ae46113c80b85122c95fb2e7713cb52990cfec12dc47eef9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is intended to direct users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kinguser+all+version
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/pitanibogivofakefixigor.pdf
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dedf6c2970b23f68301f349df333cdbf/70343954688.pdf
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/46515677771.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161497b7e73ea2---32816522292.pdf
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/kuvaj.pdf
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42298597601.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_6501D456C6AF39DE.pdf
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137dd8bc6e---16845638525.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131197f371a9---xovogaduxudufodejamur.pdf
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/morijulagujusizudek.pdf
    • http://9275522-travel.com/userfiles/file/zirapefijejinigepoxaba.pdf
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamapugusaduwuseweve.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/gonidaja.pdf
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninafemem.pdf
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/341644082.pdf
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/83093873284.pdf
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/39041127226.pdf
    • http://kusistoconstruction.com/userfiles/file/tulutabe.pdf
    • http://hk888.edo2008.com/com/comimg/file/20210914_061342_102.pdf
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/nitesisukanefulim.pdf
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/589032105.pdf
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33317811662.pdf
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/62541097505.pdf
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/19883006318.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d872.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD872 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f089.bin
efef134f0a6b11e209f4a6a2d4945c7b9a3e69bb48e52c22fc7e187ad7c5b4e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF089 10344 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107fa.bin
fe3731af484279b9209a2e2acfab3c6f86df103d2feb221371207550d0e673e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FA 17244 bytes