Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 073a34505c1356a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 33a87e22b5488dbcf0892fec8122412f SHA-1: db666b0c0bedffdea3b5bb00ff87210905469d1f SHA-256: 073a34505c1356a3fe14a6ef418814a09f338830979e217503b3a6ead5a941d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing attack designed to redirect users to malicious content.

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://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d18d4ec9ddc337033e39f86f67ff8c/wusiworarimukafex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/20727708180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a99c6db2a183a99272a262cf20ffb29/67386741625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916720a886b---77738915019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artediapharma.com/upload/files/73253281347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p3cf4lrr2q0dtsg2allladspu/kewimapatikelidifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84dd95436af6edfc3ad30b05e9f96a73/99668059351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a684b790b4ceb914ba57c9b43446311/febunuwitogonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db57c82eb03---48204708527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/vevolaloguxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/fageribow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/gelusoxetoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/13674196945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832603cf43c---jifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9303lfbhr0o1m4b8sib1tkc1a/nuvufezoxariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/34275059628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/zewupewefirugadolarixatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/15991566581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/meziwikopozafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775718db4dc---beridotajufowowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhq83kuubu0q1mqbnbamjor3dh/lovilijira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/26464346130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=world+cup+list+2019+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_off0000c599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB0 10772 bytes
SHA-256: a29c773090b5294c8a50bd44e10c8d9372b88107288f70e745e01caf6622885f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A8 18104 bytes
SHA-256: b7feb9cc44d312c7579d76e5dadada9afb3b51f1103f3cbe4d9abb7721d5ebcf