Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5249232129ebcb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 02:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0d2e7a269aa01c58844bde8d4f5a99b0 SHA-1: 16ffb71667980268a6f80bac050e8e7f66e8a2b3 SHA-256: d5249232129ebcb0eca78e7ddc91b074f557a0ae973f4e1287b5ed8e3efb4ec3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware deployment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://spacio.hk/attachment/file/29351143562.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/73074751204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4tvg1j8484j1keula68rvrvm4/gituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mea-travel.pl/userfiles/file/94940517274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hp6vri6lu2kp948q29c5ptst5/17799510738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/noxadovizuguvukinitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/1642308657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/kureremofawezojinazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaughanreunion.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/madefojonalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v87f5746m208oes9ll6lrqr5h/vuvezusezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce3f34af80056b7151b5a7be6da6f91/vimumimeluwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb6b3bc12a---81337650820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093be971c09c---tadupidanuvivoxewamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c1652b979334de9b156060c25df8bf4/49782509280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93870b39f9---88067280516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c9a7d5ee196322ee095f001226addc/nulurokotesoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df1838s97qqlv2uhnm9psgptp4/biwevibonigixoxeluvujenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/24633038858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9158dabd2---80448338638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1115aa0dcd1a83e2d26fcb440c93b67f/femizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210712_0BB45CF31312DFE3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc2283f9f8---jutupovakifipumeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ba6f46a9f0adfd6dcb3522314cecab/xewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/wukovexuvusolapujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m38bprdcr9qefgt3dsdtnilt4/30214210651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/53353589015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/48150128601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=camscanner+for+pc+windows+7+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 0e45e5a36fc628e35ef9bc9852f3f30747de4ff95eff9b198da445306bc044e5
font_01_sfnt_off00011620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11620 10852 bytes
SHA-256: ee932361834cb7385968c73714bef883362027e3c6c70e64727aabddb00ca33e
font_02_sfnt_off00012f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1