Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a1018f477cedf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:58:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 20a2746456243e564108c00a33707e76 SHA-1: 4269a284479867787680d7f3f71b4f799db4d30b SHA-256: d5a1018f477cedf4d2df3242c0c75b7f9201e0294bca00093dc6aead58b89a68
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. These links form a link farm, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely another PDF or exploit. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/lazusumafege.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/88029454627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/nujovopijetoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a2938d8a0---65756950885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/35527125063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/wuxoxexikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609828361e960---mefuvodoxevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608289853b569---gawotevopimekuxegavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballard1966.com/clients/22636/File/19407673259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/siparivaxikusasedijokixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d03be56704---19602837316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/4482521286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/8889547977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fc018b3a9---towasofonakiwazilipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c144a1318d4---pakazoruluwunedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.artefuoricentro.it/js/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kosusupoxukatenupakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c6463efd6---fazirumazofupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aefc13a24705630df73ed8d3f4a96177/rebomeloxetize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nee4navm4irdrsooar7dgir12/53445043958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/712dc768c3e9177b92ba5c059d6d2650/37669275110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/8583793756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83013191920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f056350fd4902967b5203c8acd27f1f/sadoniwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3885185d36---sexusujafiluboridigewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fabrication+technology+pdfPDF 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_off0000b97d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97D 15436 bytes
SHA-256: 1cc92718c48c5b606ec5a2809f74c6afbe3bbcbe09b871441373d270b90bd315
font_01_sfnt_off0000e096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE096 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AD 10960 bytes
SHA-256: cdbd376f66ec494936d354422895419024ff997e0cef288b19179a0a5e1d7db5