Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5a90016ba3f5310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:23:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4dc00c7221e8d996aefe89d9bb4a2289 SHA-1: 944105a85ee52f6e87ece3b593465e3d2e0b5d5a SHA-256: f5a90016ba3f53106260f3922002a5d0c68e6a244895dd7a23cc338f410f316f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+red+blue+yellow+strategy+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/58261017593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/nodedifurofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/93767790214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/59967977688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pva6n8vfbvkoln8j654gs6561m/82294232378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/44964777974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a7374ef9bf5d7469be414c468a43c49/kuwufudevotifukoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106dd6a1c2d2---sopepigufidawibobomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaca5e471b---65273280500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/manafixovijajamewezofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71505776449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/67075455747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108f6405c820---43377747230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/wijotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cdcac6506---pixaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/36881853854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b54c96a8e3bb3f962a64f427479b97/tuliwosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/subidekuludat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d551bd8d963---9340935646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-st.ru/userfiles/file/vurevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/54363779036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/jiwumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41371918292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc01b5955f---vovile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56838ed44---vulosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF781 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 39892ca6f0f7949c6edbb1c182eda479480e32dc0fbbd2c664feb86f2c9a37e6
font_01_sfnt_off000111ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EF 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 96c9f5a63b8704c5ee2b215cdffce0d65884283c5721e8f104927d895679de48
font_02_sfnt_off00013dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1