Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a101d02fed2c4db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a017fa3b2670e98d0eef75895103801f SHA-1: f290dcf5c52ce9577d140a46b879eaac6d403870 SHA-256: 1a101d02fed2c4db1af7c7270e9f58e24ce561f3f0422f559f4e1329cf137d06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and malware detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608198270fd4c---21402042118.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/84484764420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/safijosiwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/musajurudarazapetisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/jitedebujufegenakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gc8ol43blesag9et9h44v778i/22340458820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bviei5m7bmqjkbslk6j9epalgf/lowogekugufasiluporat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/sibawagimolorufuwujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0878519548472ec9ab8bced12bf215ab/waderanajawisetejunovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817149a6f23---muxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fe2924a8ff6858e38cb564bfaee502a/zanenuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609860c042e24---68073642585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b07823ae9---wunowodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920339b2f25---repazibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6faddc976fe3c11a4a5b44b7ddb9e4a/sisazikozunijopewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63a96bbda---rosumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3aeb76c3eecb1aa0ebcf5bbbe785af/pitafigewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb8c009b02---romanenoxejasadubopexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9v17m9044dic9r4t7l75a54d2/gupejavisagukaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/pubunokejupuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1841682521---70472748567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/rupinolipukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/80936986422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc02669cae1---23001565432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759ab51478f---26791049874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=high+relative+humidityPDF 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_off000113c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C6 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 2671158a27f84aedac0e327ca50db93ef32812092fa5afe6f492ef188302f921
font_01_sfnt_off00012ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA1 17172 bytes
SHA-256: ce91b543e2142a66f80a360a99756dc5e9f2aa37786e38dcf9734176dc5d33a5
font_02_sfnt_off00015824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15824 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1