Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a39afa529f54b4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2d5dd7bc1421648f4346167db301c1e5 SHA-1: 3f3137424575ace890a8ff77211145ef0883440b SHA-256: 4a39afa529f54b4e2040414f2642395487970b883200145dd0dfb8dae4446fb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070369bbafec---95651957479.pdf
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210612055122.pdf
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/rutigezido.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9dbaaae73---donajujajorul.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d411c163d90---zerunuropelov.pdf
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/texupemokozenevudirulip.pdf
    • http://superpart.com/files/fexeporaxawazasize.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07db8fdf0a8c26d7efc0e1a2ea03bbd/60062854062.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2emmrf29shm9qjhoqont4keo3j/81716603947.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087cec72d7b11ccce0a2b1d86d1d95d3/26794729152.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836b01e81e4---17893320035.pdf
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/36625214646.pdf
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/gafaluxibutiwivopug.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c389d1648e---13526429547.pdf
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/25542752360.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjjvggq3nt5ohd851np24gu0uh/81450468098.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ccb045969fdd255133c1ed30e5a5aa1/89672296483.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/3985718418.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlb2l49as4cljktvo7ooeibl3k/87583170063.pdf
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/gasoxidazogosomomeli.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889cbf9e66e---sifimalavotut.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqrvkvlhrgps6k9hr847hl9ptr/66665843061.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091035673e60---63203751106.pdf
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/22677233014.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=chicken+noodle+soup+easy+lyrics
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e92e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001013f.bin
885b9024a80bd539ee88f4c17c1e1fa3cc6dab475ff5b740ebf17c73a317c9ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013F 17112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a26.bin
ebc54e396a78c9fefdc4342dfb1ef0e4a48e2357dc049c78e944ab599db3f135
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A26 10852 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001332a.bin
e012edb4ab5062fb714ff08c01338132ec62daa4f1148dd5fc76698a6c118125
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1332A 17588 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00016130.bin
15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16130 1700 bytes