Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5fb4122afdc079c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aa56bd9b34cc33fc73b491e7c1b1d809 SHA-1: 9723ec2071823ba422cce9fad5119dbef62d22da SHA-256: a5fb4122afdc079c89456041e2ad01f886e6bef6b3ed8affbd7557d434a900a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lead victims to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74425771341.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/80114403527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/vobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe73c00951d19babf13827c1ddde001b/67013061258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b150d30001cbeb6b5f61bf3ae29e30b7/90599405198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/kuzelizakijalepikuxogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addd2cc0f4f---46328026000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12248356126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/19619904198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/55074834461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c53b484a294f602cc67248a6448048/telowasuwijovoduwapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/46512268143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e6a4cfd3466bf7abfd3ed6ce7701fcc/wukegomeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/digafobarari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/gefagopuwitumijasarewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609282232a84d---34957459837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd90c4b12f44ad3b05c9bd45c64a4a1/50848833894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/38639735930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/furepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebdf11da29b1de1d732eeb01e13e4ef7/gisipavujaravesusaxapoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/wupurevejeradugarizati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76065af99d---33384679922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844c054f7b4---mudoduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=in+fulfillment+ofPDF 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_off0000fddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDD 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8a0382291b42bf0ec1a0f43624a13b6582811bd153c0d0ab32b0362af733d8
font_01_sfnt_off00012a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001421b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421B 9996 bytes
SHA-256: e6c2527612e4f71b321b2a5473c66ab633128b6c0745ce19c0fa360dca36ad8c