Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a1340bad02ec5fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

235.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:16:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 34c6cd03b71636ecdd445a5a2b69d4ca SHA-1: 5e10b63d66ceef8640ad2fa080873909864ee182 SHA-256: 4a1340bad02ec5fa3027cdbc86b20dc552487a67c9821aa408e6612d8dc8a136
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, with one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload hosting another PDF, indicating a likely multi-stage attack. The embedded URLs and the compromised CMS upload link farm suggest this PDF is designed to lure users into downloading and opening a secondary malicious file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p323v74fqrq48rebs3ef56gq81/43051838892.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608938ee70c7d---79702459647.pdf
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/bobenalezobenuwazefor.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a0ee8e4a13---47913937354.pdf
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5cqj8itgfc2vo71qon8tviui0/56053811034.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb63f2962fa5a26dce3435bc73b9563/wikedibogatewuligatopusos.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cad378a271db4d2d711f918283ad21d/74826251526.pdf
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwanor.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb72f25933---8306808844.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/voxoxiripimama.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8c6c22be2---jofapuzawuzogamufi.pdf
    • http://cityhighclassof77.com/clients/9/9e/9ea685038b5a197d2022a69b8c6b162a/File/83142957381.pdf
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/jefexapotanusixaziveput.pdf
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/dotiruk.pdf
    • http://ideas4mypool.com/userfiles/file/bemamudorunevowunira.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/48767546542.pdf
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/fuzowuxopexet.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855dc99e9ae---14954670739.pdf
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4b95f336c39b76812b1de7a7665e1c/matexegoz.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c67bbcc1c5a8d1c386f2a1d304a601/jogotexovinoka.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/39156487374.pdf
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/gederoxe.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870ca592510---91769057181.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=love+in+relationship+2+by+goodness+shadrach+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00032c49.bin
cd5daf2e8b25db4da0ec33200be19012d1fd1f6b5a004a29ff3371119da8b6d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x32C49 11296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00034665.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x34665 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00035e77.bin
4d59900b131e99399fa6bb129b22f7d0654c113f78a6e3ee673264df9a85e425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x35E77 16312 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0003884b.bin
e4cd408809e3901c9d96cd85f992fb2462a12d6dae69aaa0c8ba71b1bc394209
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3884B 16500 bytes