Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07a3e0e8c3f43058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1ce4ee7d90c5dd186721d5f59edb9c4a SHA-1: d6a37fb86d6f743e8152c2c96ccaa846b4a813d7 SHA-256: 07a3e0e8c3f43058bacc06c10dc3c0143e9e86f3b7a4648933266e78eb686f6b
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 distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of using compromised legitimate sites to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325d22694d2f7b60881ea5eabd92e074/31286444687.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/64179830363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/48399772693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1836a46b2122f65ed79152f3925ed2/buxogezojenakexoronama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84s3nohi32p3i9pakrinsq1vb7/jomirojuporetofaxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722c1c9503---tajomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/padafuborezakewozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4eeb7ee5d89af8a865d744ed0d3ab8e/30988167834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e03cec256---7025352108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c9114eb6a02b0c65c7073ede5956057/5524635488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9f378a717---kodokifotosake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/soropejabofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e2d342437---rajupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/xirozosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4d59094c5b627fb85b212f34482db0/wasobutupogaxuviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b26a08fd7f---9930125124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa5fd1896f0f0ccd021f8554ae28a60f/jagexakigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6109aa42a87ed37ae23a906e4c188548/45923417923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083365aa8920---10158433549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081a4791c741dbaf3d68c4a3f45aaef6/183919204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/12554204296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75d87c70897b09a2fe05732126e58370/32876227769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vasectomy+cost+with+insurancePDF 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_off0000d460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD460 10716 bytes
SHA-256: da549943125f3f5bfe6f680c692d093205b7b5b3d1b08dab1e28ee96b6162273
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE0 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 811d913c772fa6753a11cab09608d561c6f864a9bb875e0ef3e31ee9c2031254
font_02_sfnt_off000117cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1