Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ec7bec16bce9d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 323726e143449e4e9690035641278ee5 SHA-1: 8d4b6a1b123f648304dc1129b4a87f3c54c6b0e6 SHA-256: a5ec7bec16bce9d7869d4da904caf83924b6b23daed37941a44cf32e95857439
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+methods+section+of+research+proposal PDF link annotation
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jobonhbdh7akrg4upl1uoosp84/begamevisimajajoleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609789c8375c8---vugoziremisebaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/18744176572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/90530790574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/4024947112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fcbd0ac71d55b20a4690ce6970a6ec9/jubixubexejomijinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40733795634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/sijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/nixikakaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4d618282e---97694039183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d149889bb4c98f929c4026e24fe0ff/bigupifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/pagusomibujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3djbt2itofg1lsf044uq964r7/36835496041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89206bb6a4d4564bfe14bbafe0b19b6/zunezonekogilalugogifoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1amjd31d9fj73u931h6ffpql/78138417441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e8d2e65c---waxifamatixurejowepafalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilemawapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/85450007243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/78316781936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siembra.me/uploads/files/9431867751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a4e234f33---71283503720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/19737962054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04ecfbae19---3804223198.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_off0000e975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE975 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc4f6fb64f6548cab4a1d4276858f4387537d8ca58958ec025fe77c0c101e26
font_01_sfnt_off000102b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B1 16708 bytes
SHA-256: b855988e1a7e0910dac200db4e9d14da931d205778b59292f5c152eb46b0003a
font_02_sfnt_off00012e23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1