Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a280d36acc7c90b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:59:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2636d5263562f45434ac29355d2a5aac SHA-1: f0cd37abd42821568f3666a9a65cabba6bcb1280 SHA-256: 4a280d36acc7c90bf687685ff59fcf8dd88bfd3708f8942f707e0477ba32d121
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or further exploitation. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous extracted URLs point to a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/kasibumug.pdf
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b284211a87a436d4a8423008844058/98714375311.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b730c27c90d---65184437663.pdf
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95142333822.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c407e5789---fokusinodopurafemu.pdf
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/89940881052.pdf
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/vubixo.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/sijada.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29204a3a5b---71993876755.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a47755d816cabb89d479bcd2825719d0/sofuxagobejovuzudo.pdf
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528125627.pdf
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/junolipogitubojovu.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c7ab7f79e90694d8e1e30beb68a271c/totigejobe.pdf
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/tibewimovewew.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/nikutumafilig.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/91939462500.pdf
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/meturinukikukixinizuga.pdf
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/bofigafe.pdf
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb2a544ae06fa7cbbd42e7a560b1a30c/19254936838.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085acdc72571---rulafewuronusuzabef.pdf
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/12947250277.pdf
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/78354329529.pdf
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/xuwonuvol.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=digital+voltmeter+using+arduino+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c39c.bin
448c5aadec3941e4c9968887b92229d9013768ac97c3901fdf63189ab329a3ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39C 17708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109c7.bin
458485fcd18a0eb47d4e5543a6a6dc2a363237a69318971340646542e5c19b3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C7 11008 bytes