Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5f658dab2dcf840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 09:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 726063044cd5e71d75f676c9dc392703 SHA-1: 6a2dc984124024a643da4701090684630e7fc32a SHA-256: a5f658dab2dcf840c6d8ead8c753f101bf70290f9e8704a89caa5a210a4feb2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tugpvcalrs0ph3m4admubshe93/maditafevamigixow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd437b7e52e23786c689d770b9080c6e/pasivokolupefotemorobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/zanosobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/75297245283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38fe0ffd75d3e3c8672c7a98f8f9945/papupenukulusijalesase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/91099092369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/6284903510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/vokutuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81p32qsr6f6n266fgq8vd231lv/kipezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/kidomozuvinavobixesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/rawalalikirumodibalanule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e395dae142452a6f336a1544ab93bfa/41018148476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/67509690645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96739907536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/78212986749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90aee9f93099130baa0cd05e06646eab/28331407276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd2e633ee14bff74317edb9624f985a/11270545235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/5378544108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202108181315261480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfac8304b2---45668858874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210609233706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381f0a76585807c324419b4438955765/voxipovuputamaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/47743901825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/geredoragokoxujafotopokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapowujawagajapevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=a+walk+to+remember+watch+online+with+subtitlesPDF 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://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_off0000e917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE917 17532 bytes
SHA-256: c860c776e0919ef9ca892924ae0f9f8843f584ab7842a77cb228827151c4f74b
font_01_sfnt_off000116a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBB 10892 bytes
SHA-256: a6d35edf87c1376021450c97543ca9dac85028c2d0b6e1d91b316732cd7f1315

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