Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca5df5d49fc18c5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:37:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cad3a3a4a8a089d5731364f166317ca9 SHA-1: 5b3b35c0a17a27fd4859f23278a8e3db2da2731b SHA-256: ca5df5d49fc18c5fae0e46f8a3f1fab6bf125aad92f556bd33b88b15114f2e40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or SEO poisoning tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fdc3c84a3---48295470198.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e30919fb5---powawogagukemiwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611df9ac5c4e3---63005034397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/nesuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/35903829295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/21317630250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/nukutoroletib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/24884429617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/75514614086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097436a04011---tisotopobovetojurepufaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/80770345004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebaxazatuvade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/getumozitudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/kawakutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19db906705---58577095335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/51482306881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.plfiles/file/67274028948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/murelelilodifufatitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/28301987720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/47191734029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4630a69b37fd503999f32526d0bb21/kabovokijowukadifamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dde9f0199f8---majelaputegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93d5aab36a9eb9d5db42fad05abf5e2/75233699927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210620082141_1395746282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/6276365713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cruise+control+kit+for+manual+transmissionPDF 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_off0000e090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A2 18008 bytes
SHA-256: f9512f3635f98e4c4363305a0d7cd1cdf1f3e2be679f2e4ac218724399d91de4
font_02_sfnt_off0001275c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 0168d82cb97fdf751208bbc52676fe797437e77b1d6f34bbed91b209a104cd91