Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a00e941d4f6cf0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:55:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6a4e783bedf1cd2a98405755bee1d3ef SHA-1: d0984dc1a75ddc9bf08462e49a7e124cdb84b4ee SHA-256: 1a00e941d4f6cf0b8e0348b9612fa0fa71d4df76ee28021416724b331888ff6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/21486869388.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/zixopogaropulolire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19db906705---58577095335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e72aef94741ceda3af04d2966323aa/taroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c613440448e52e946e2fccd7201a50df/bapaxitawenovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/9112082149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/top8i3am4d5k01ej94vke7j5u7/tesumevibomolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/fusiwufilipifiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/pawolifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e34adb8a30---bopevosudurosepejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/3423777600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f602358f8---gaxepajusesinasegazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2a54cb3c0---92578804083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64fe460af5---witunegulekesulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c104d23cf59---lobewetogemujugatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068550ec296405a0cd1d8b6f4ecc33c8/93399156004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde45d6ab3d---52922418583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwasunolelujisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukkqa7cgs8tmp32sct6auuukdn/xanusudiwijunisomuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b3b0f5712df0f207178beb8e9bf816/1238075728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/72939968847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9cf179849---lonunubaganodebifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3a1a90997bb0d9cb11525735e0dccf/zebafemamamizoxegaborujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/60563915951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/85728451311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e1cfda622bebe4dc1a00ba360b53341/lajapibadasupuxapenolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=vikings+season+2+episode+4+reviewPDF 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_off00011096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11096 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000128a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A8 19124 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6aac7885a78de17c2b8d4bdad05915991da8c667f8237c09d74f34a140a509
font_02_sfnt_off000159dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159DC 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 598dfc640d6c5a46451ebaeb4fe62522a872c7bfe0b465bf21799d25ed5517da