Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a118c4806ddd373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a15b584565fea1f2946e20fd33c52be SHA-1: a5de1c15d7564967f7344fd4d345576aa1a9bcea SHA-256: 5a118c4806ddd373bdd0d2abfd936e0c68b315fc5984dc75e10f14a02af57c70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33141186c037307da0766e5d9d26a6ff/4234430299.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879a2817503---92733354827.pdf
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/mutamovoxak.pdf
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/74734201087.pdf
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/612326902.pdf
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fb96e12c0---nejivatuda.pdf
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/39530839397.pdf
    • http://didopack.com/files/negoba.pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb3a031cba---saribifododivuludob.pdf
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/wawutadoganogiw.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792dbbae1c1---lufiboj.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/58246205394.pdf
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/36736072324.pdf
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/kesamowasuf.pdf
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f21a871343b97a8c63419eccd51c3d/59396560774.pdf
    • http://fpsh1980.com/clients/7/7d/7de5299bd6bdc19cdd6b275c058e9c4a/File/nowutukiwotamigat.pdf
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/93003135051.pdf
    • https://daismene.it/file/65807186348.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519132304732964.pdf
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/xinetesumuzugimixuwilakib.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc776687ff---rapovetodetuzub.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/96304039319.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=touch+typing+for+kids
    • 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_off0000e468.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE468 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc7f.bin
94bbf94719f29c43d757720c857a5449de7a9d9e746b1f44e9402d827556d469
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7F 10828 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011544.bin
56961c9f3b81d891b3ba9fedb26a80d59dbf683bee0af2c91b6493ff14439359
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11544 16896 bytes