Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9a8ddc820455ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c09e510c95a3138dac243a4399fc188c SHA-1: 0ac3bb9bcabf369024e4a992a279f10194530253 SHA-256: 4a9a8ddc820455aef2e6b5336395f49d44fbc0c7a0c1b02533feef50e1309777
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm the malicious nature by identifying compromised CMS uploads and link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a75288b1e---xusujoxaremali.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9ac7c0f7c455eb2a3422509b1cdb7b/xovanurikifefezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0cae8dde50bfdc47824f9010d72853c/35737969216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/62520891869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/98388106860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/vozawejisoxinuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade42f5d068---xezuzerigigegirudufelara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/sowuxogozizewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otktdb777qk8q94aou8priftv6/59576095504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.proyecpapel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutuverevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078baf6da826---sifadetetimumizinusovajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f44b10a6f---wakoresojogewupoparidebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd0e56e06---51655438669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c221a02762ab0c406b438d7a6b8968d/52111662346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/fopofuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/kexawipofesedabupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/99471744002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/powubemaganas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiejn7tscbktbiv4kmod4elpgn/seliduzebinipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/lerotazizavofevarira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/zejobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/49211836257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/faganomewukarazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780e4defe70---rizodusivigabasutosidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=lysis+buffer+for+protein+extractionPDF 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_off0000ec92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC92 10840 bytes
SHA-256: fbf07441245bad081792ab592ce793fb1b929bdbec839ac645bdc194d7ca15ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10594 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 393d2a65b84656ab3ce754d13a58c8919f0b9f43e9ae5432cd5df969112694e8
font_02_sfnt_off00013552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13552 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1