Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0520e4092da40f6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 05:51:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 94ae3f1582949ddcc2b5973d49dbd454 SHA-1: c078113a18d69731a562af9c015b61a1f0010c43 SHA-256: 0520e4092da40f6b5e1c84b171492f7a296d504aae3caffaf013521613660d62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristics strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

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://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/36524838174.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8n9gumps03hh3tegfvlb8rt4t5/filivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971495d083ee06774fc9aa2e21016291/60960348104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9a2b2e09d6fb2ae9f70a67277a1471/45440641017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57isodud08vt0cu76g60v9jrno/52567234682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/86382995071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98858951431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh3ko63o7gpnmsh49reho2nan2/28810415689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/25743609490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///11074021067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbslrr05jchnac0l0nvleec395/25667291589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce0449d4f3---tijeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609911986b246---jeromobijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/papuxusiseziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/wusikegokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39502998747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/38583842232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd4fe6338836a56a62b6e73f71a4e5b/97629996573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/85787018493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0334e7fa5---fonexabupokuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/vusabofiwinojoxivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4747ae4b3a---gozesabesisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=marketing+notes+for+mba+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B7 11020 bytes
SHA-256: cff7762f382ab79598a203f3d2ca36c8348252522f650b931a6a48b3f7244a2b
font_02_sfnt_off000111e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E9 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 8412518941151d5ae70033336b6987eaf65d830fbaebb7c3ac9cc2436211e673