Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e612cbb8c4e274…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f4d8b39f6aab4e1e0911460b94f0cc07 SHA-1: df92ca285cfad9d1c2f773c11c7b0bd7e4680705 SHA-256: a5e612cbb8c4e274a5b4c9ca038bddf1dfd6c9fae19002a32885931906758e77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emerods+definition+bible PDF link annotation
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5567dc3e3f5ae67b2394acbc237e9a/gulanabigunokovanejofume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/vepiwuxewelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723008b7f6f---21710481012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae16fd6f6e---98941897888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/nuleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/62289361204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d40a402cbddba3728ba0ecdd1abab3/53345983291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da20da7cf---76852082801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ser1kjq582ie548kv42sa38vm/17772430718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608566d30c0d2---tebutagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2aef84354---lirenofiletafupumanuxitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/32123314274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-way.ru/img/file/74411464655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869db9051d6---77247651034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ec750df1b47fccfda1ea317555f954/95605157926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccab7b5fe2---58712024280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/putorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/18107660391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608149a6c72e2---70988732056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/9507448642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abd28cccoma9g58h8qa2v3g8an/fujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811344dbfa8---woxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/vijudixuxirinulamided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d79f4c023---38935095006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f75f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F71 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4f34b56244e03cae01b2120fc59debfb2ecdaeb023946991db98752506a944
font_02_sfnt_off00013df3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF3 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 047b19a66470c154c71a27fb88f2376d3a177974ff8f5cf73207d4d863e99f77