Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a0b1812cbafdf27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 23:14:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c62fbff4ea1abfdd3f864e522f9e0674 SHA-1: 3e461c90b027f9eec14c5b8654c3499e489cd27b SHA-256: 1a0b1812cbafdf275cf27cff4e2129b4f62705a318b0b5e56ffd620b2faa7045
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the use of compromised CMS upload storage are strong indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+bollywood+movies+in+mp4 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2238af11b7ded65b591a25fcdd2b9cc6/89838822741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095282519e97---77514483738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5c7d3a928---35778658524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9081469dec73acdce2f10b565db2a4/69439953261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef37a51b26---pozenuvowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755234750d7---wetibisapuzevogulomawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61b3bf386d---tipudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um7olv66snbnpsnt193hrv3lq2/80121897676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b94b76151---97480182098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52210025174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f1a66d0adb26e765143b997fa5b90b/kamutotetiganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/tuguxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e053e7587c---zezeguwexitufaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/saron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d990c5722f---rekuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86stvqnhsb3b16pp35h83d17t7/57787746270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/jawizepamojidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E6 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 78a5c2cccea8ca8bdc89e59567869a5c5625f37127919e182a214d29fee35c62
font_01_sfnt_off00010aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACA 11048 bytes
SHA-256: d8e4c97db701d7bbe3b88e3b141d137302a8df89ac473de70a8d1758fee8fe8b