Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e53f5c0d2e7223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-24 05:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5f51d279f6e7d7f18fca513b535e7625 SHA-1: 7f1b8ac0ff363d6e6aebfc167ed54d75aa2a7f55 SHA-256: a5e53f5c0d2e7223701b8e2bce653628dd96a5772bff47531689e1119e4df303
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, indicates a lure related to a 'puzzle and seating arrangement book pdf' and includes urgency language, aiming to trick the user into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cichanski.com/Upload/file/57555485545.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs026s3qrsb4ipnic66gujun77/lobepixadibalabufenovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d48b052cc91898ddc0bee911304b5b1/fiwevugunofovuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091eeb7f1c2e---datakosujisoruzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0ef6b6885d7903e23edf2c964f8bdd/17565648406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723ac77c624---gegidewevotavasuvozozejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/wurizuzebinesifotifagopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/65359759553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076648f40281---7471663642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/70754200603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/61169971161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/49899579154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d98186d65---97858245113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9ef7d6d68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879b53cd459---bunutejenemapepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf2ce9dbab---jejexojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608560bce05e1---34007684453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=puzzle+and+seating+arrangement+book+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDA 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 7aa04f6da619b47f80530905f4606866422479fc288f4afab59a7ec2f6595ffd
font_01_sfnt_off000100e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E1 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off00010c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3D 2572 bytes
SHA-256: d994ce69c6f81b5c08c03ba562d2f706cf1769b4889cf810a7b22083d555bb26
font_03_sfnt_off00011784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11784 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 52ffeb9ef86926b8bda69db101eff9676fedd0551d49956ac7a75b985fbc6c83
font_04_sfnt_off00013e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E32 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 125a630ae36d687af16ac3154fb434b850067b05410764bfdb68ab5447389c67
font_05_sfnt_off0001550b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1550B 8996 bytes
SHA-256: 2bd4419c3282e3f3688951726105d5d5fd4efc6377fb41822a3c033ff9e44a0d