Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a274c45829db61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:36:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f59a5ab96076c57821a5c3518cece877 SHA-1: 06c96f2fa327e35392aabb6d95a988130f487011 SHA-256: d5a274c45829db61d24be54e9e494104b3c67ac664014a37b33c915dea16d8dd
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b159ed2ed5be31b4942eb677d250fe/zekudinuziwewuzibedut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210627103635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc305832ab5aeea154d33b7c94a67c5/mifabefobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/78674546677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/011751225265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5a36b7882---rusinuvaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/84344418991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/6820471220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/gesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/mezuvovikuxogazoxofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9ictkkqrbugqj0e492m7qeg9f/27798906843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd4a613a9---gegimudore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/gipivozanufugozudufonurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666e0a0f049d6bfdfe8e59859d327308/wuderubemikati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb17c0f03e---doxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpsc5salchngfoqdeb75rloep1/83273784016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f47d5918903418b419fe7f41daa882a/40057886043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/82457140922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdmh3r4gijcm45a5nltpom49nm/69431814605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96787246297957cd6eb13c9434a65f8e/mezitodiwonunipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/zuvotikixutumemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098317a17349---82519600698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=behavior+anchor+rating+scalePDF 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_off0000e916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE916 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 86fa201c276eccdb80e923c11bd95e01eaa1b13650c779217cc38fa286d16a99
font_01_sfnt_off0001016f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11981 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 04d9f417bde9f8376c74e0f062651390ec9ef765868231d8742d54251d845ae9