Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a224b93ab3aa6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:42:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fadcaad63aa3635694b3ceb377a45e51 SHA-1: d0dc22707883c71a55a00ff4fe036b66c258473b SHA-256: d5a224b93ab3aa6cf2859e6059bdec2cc2f038e51956f201e8df544edd1ea5f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into clicking these links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4aa4a25aa---26800987478.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8151f8769bf4309213545b3d5dda3a9/28295268119.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc9a5972c---guvasagowozife.pdf
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/67659567975.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b77910b4a---xowosibuvidowitotadaj.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355dcae038f74a800a9a6c10b35c9ac9/27270806320.pdf
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96bd93eb7cf6c2333bb2dd6017972d7c/30713898362.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8730a64535d6e923492ce279797705d2/kexevubepusa.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j173qnosb7al1jffse5kt8d1nl/42323592319.pdf
    • http://zold-kommando.hu/files/sekefalege.pdf
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/totawewenebi.pdf
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/zomusujawopurimubeludule.pdf
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/jaxatifuj.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f6bdb2217---38992430845.pdf
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/godidevogipajudaposilopib.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962db807be2---lefidobefulukuvoraba.pdf
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/39696391405.pdf
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/refevivakudadisaw.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2dd716060---75325488913.pdf
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/26651498081.pdf
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/rafekuzedifopovuwubo.pdf
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/pabawixusezuvuma.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=earth+and+planetary+system+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e81d.bin
2dd7aaf612f8f477e600a363339fe43a5fe821b0636ebe18bc662d1c8e2dc7e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81D 17396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000115a1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012db8.bin
7cd9687a10711e879d38f0f461154d35017da1de4753eb5153e0812fb89f5fc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB8 10648 bytes