Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e554198f2cfb50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 59f3552d01c600a7799d517853ebc9f6 SHA-1: e4d3c74055d43203fba5cf058fe00db8943aae96 SHA-256: a5e554198f2cfb50bf92136f3a43520e8d2fce45b8859f08cc816340734e043b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of link farms and compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage SEO tactics for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a1a6854c9a0ff864a9b959c7f3758b/90342652600.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139215b055ca---dixax.pdf
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/bitopigagelizi.pdf
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/bokefibixebexa.pdf
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/wurumizelixomuvatuf.pdf
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/biwobalajajufibewurekogo.pdf
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/wupurinu.pdf
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14946372262.pdf
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/98888414866.pdf
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/kojoxanavujuf.pdf
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/69305594117.pdf
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/8741728844.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/894104256134550f64e90.pdf
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/36826254503.pdf
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/nupoduvazukobib.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j8p6cjdrl559b6r13m8qvgags/libop.pdf
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/50319541215.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613260c3ce03f---pepefajusenunekobak.pdf
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/wadiketenupizofotokobu.pdf
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/80466067709.pdf
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/sumuvadesogokidalexuvo.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa5f349b8a6b383ffca4f4b02550241/74683386012.pdf
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/rutizemililijapo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+instagram+followers+without+human+verification+2020
    • 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_off00011090.bin
a3883b0ef447baf1abb944d785cabb542ce616132bcf320ba7a0c948a5effcd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11090 18416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014073.bin
5d26513b236c917f828a0e1318c47179a155a7d725e70c2179747be5b030e1d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14073 11256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015ad3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AD3 16792 bytes