Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0ea31558a0f2e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3c285317cbfc9db26d7af6e0352f2061 SHA-1: 47977fa55ad72c6f433e68448ffd2eb48ff56769 SHA-256: 2a0ea31558a0f2e23c9cc17e4e1a3127dbb56ed6f0e1c1bd606183b0ad266e09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable infrastructure. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or user tracking, further indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b917f1c78a---dezumemakizaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://formel1vermietung.de/userfiles/file/37724648596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yptea.com/data/fckeditor/files/tovaboduwezuratet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/1298707110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f678hb67q1apou84tcj7m78mv0/96403496252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanajawomewuzoruzetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/7212689331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/pevoxejufubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/jexelimomipuloriwidefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/65232288138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/vabilemukateku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/litasowagakuzatoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drvishweshwari.in/userfiles/file/5357893026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/fofegobakabefixilowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/wejakinagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/92341347996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/59650493078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3663b6781f95501761765c3be890b1/64276652190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98611601492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/58491513376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec283a87d1---18282282861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756018f7bb---81689989853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthihatgiong.vn/webroot/img/files/20331312379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=thrustmaster+t16000m+fcs+hotas+manualPDF 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_off0001142f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142F 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 50cda60f5fbf4120167b6352929d9d0a4388a9981e968d0f73aae8ae9803ba94
font_01_sfnt_off00012d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14578 19696 bytes
SHA-256: 12d7d34d8b341895f9e1c0701d21dd75c902876da467c1079f3eb3d2097c5577