Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5d87aa94e2fc6a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b9609f48d3c5a070ee63b58fe59f084f SHA-1: 43bf9488aa3320e857152482f27713d7c9aab07b SHA-256: f5d87aa94e2fc6a8343a3673251f75b520b69213ef4ffe2e910026cf957d3843
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=breadboard+arduino+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/29300959423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fh9qibhp3981vnnop46nnk5c2/daxomojomabidunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/61953918929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6907c5187---sotigomerixededunewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogevoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/22801289121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210705_8ADF2D14A727A9D9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846fe49e485---60583358857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937c7f63a73dd9483607644a25f9c4da/98974601651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608338a3db827---91469936029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/57520186678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p35lr52gbjq4onvecqucrtj6s3/wizajonepogukajuvumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/28773724900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/lufifebasodikakipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/konumenizifabifakavater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/67311127547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmpp83mco08nkikmehvrubmfne/ribulojizimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gbe007hrkvpcn80udn7ka5b5h/daraxefuporosiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfca447e6ed---xawudomosajelaviseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijpvai9mehrelv34u53rh5iih5/19999631961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cb9ad53f63---fazoradivujogebuvinakuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc81c3d6a4a---35704736249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/2628020801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec0acbeb15---37310025504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210618094246_jrrvun.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_off000108d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D1 10472 bytes
SHA-256: a611a3d33f2436ce0af67b41198ce866606303080e1fc59ad88e311414de1ace
font_01_sfnt_off00012066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12066 20740 bytes
SHA-256: 1e87fe45c3a6aa3f1983106a34a9ea6b736a1b7754ad98c04226163a32312e7c
font_02_sfnt_off0001556b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1556B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1