Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad5e6d47afeb8df3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 06:00:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2cf62161898815cf21404ac78cf19c7c SHA-1: f52d8965ed1904ba116f8c586c4c73d035074a05 SHA-256: ad5e6d47afeb8df3e054fa6eba877ce67df4006bd928e67a00ecaedbe18b3acb
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 sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or phishing lures. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://builderall.info/userfiles/file/tuwazedodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/tetedozawupepoburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e3i.com/UserFiles/file///24453590079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c619b026dff---58267439296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/92159705292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07036c1666---26543225590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac59a9803fc---2375195802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a8e412d80---99655614609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84014799686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd0a86ae9131bb917b95dd159de18ea/20030320575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/18121842532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/23066892404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/63949425805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/potulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi1tfhqad0ea1r4ungab2m9bf7/vaxukikolixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/sigibiwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbe3f43358---tabobomunusopepupazufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dbe1bbafe---90369432112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/loxusireni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088246282529---77233888842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkji89k8ijf6rkhonrmu6rieam/vonetedoxupinilofazuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/ruwarulaxoxafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeae78ac0ff9553cf5efa272bb5880a8/72332166743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a998a9c7b84---bixasogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0husq47ergqse0225jcqk6sij0/gawagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/kujipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sexual+and+asexual+reproduction+worksheet+5th+gradePDF 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_off0000f1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B6 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 72275523436d5ad62870f8f4fa9eee80629928827f7396e9f85a203b261d9acb
font_01_sfnt_off00010c57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C57 18800 bytes
SHA-256: b7936583fe4eff3a742ea0d4c54249091ca3b2b06b36d9e526ececebd6de3cb5
font_02_sfnt_off00013d6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1