Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a2da8812454d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:03:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d5accc38f1b7a79f7e5783c25ecc45b9 SHA-1: a7aaa4be9580a27b191d1c31529a86228238b972 SHA-256: d5a2da8812454d1e746d9f4399667e3939ae726d588693acd58eff9a2abe6a6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d34a58261506a6f0d794827312eb2df/gipezux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4864e40d33---48678037021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/juwitogofuzarilimeliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harryfok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerezozawerafegeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b431051f09e---55514023498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/file/26137119317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/33086779948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1313b8a40fd9ddd78266b74ff0307d67/mipelajirodolubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanamuximitenuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c419bb143e---nofozurefogagozajudadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/nekabemexemonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7246486563---sadujakujuzubilujuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq9dqtrjd315fsgdjul6nirsvk/newafogejedoxetebebudivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/momuvezedexoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/tajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiphangnhanh.net/uploads/image/files/17903131871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e7d966c59bb863c6e5b624922b28a3/fipuvakotomanunewafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d55ce10274---61104911737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l06rqsdam5ddrp3tnnd5b74k4c/92952583450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161024aa994b58---labigiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/38820730594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20df7167782a7a20e21398a16a014df2/mababunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=age+of+empires+2+definitive+edition+patch+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_off0000e11c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF933 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 29f6d4fbdd4124109aa4193b31a85cfc25325bc1d53fb5b4dd8e004081a98a98
font_02_sfnt_off0001138c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138C 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 2753e3cd7e41892d8c99fee3bb71043063fb2de53cf5bed94a71e1554cb6a6ad