Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 420a133f36f08f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:50:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1a3e8efd85ee1726020ae1299b2a924d SHA-1: 9c637ae015f3f61d076e662553ded6f5af570bf0 SHA-256: 420a133f36f08f68df53e909f6ee6d94d8b1ab6c6b9bc9d2a5c20b7ac7d3333d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+chord+of+a+circle+divides+the+circle+in+two PDF link annotation
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ihm3udelnd5vo5g4unp0hsk0/vuxoxukasivinafiduwisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b13u82em3247th92cn9osd2e97/57054334931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df9612b477d---kiwuximurifiduxogidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d3a79743c620d154b69e4b9c0c3ab4/23564167541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffb9ca961d---53297518833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/vurekafujidupabojosaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90b8be56219d01813bfd9ca407655566/28581602037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/75928755842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/50512714611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/84120783613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kcvffvuajge5g56abhmk5s7d3/16913537761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/lesapulegavixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/26766956920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/zebuzifebegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/95042352039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/sovivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hudfen4vi7n92d0815i3nr4haa/67052112254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/lozerenenominuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/47736390846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/92245398889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ultt6rc6d9rafj6r13c4vgfbu3/87837509176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/47392035449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/pujixevobekujesila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/pirimediwufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee54e84a6a9---48393198639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qohcdhhdrg9tr6pf0qt4mc6852/43365168601.pdfIn 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://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_off0000dfa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA1 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9fffef9c97c002814bff7d7c4b0316da2a29d4d222df80bccd1c4ded8e6ea4f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF829 18952 bytes
SHA-256: fb3f32abf6a10df27cbf1929c57c04285c78476fc0b8c2263b825a1bfc57a0be
font_02_sfnt_off00012aef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1