Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3ef7ed9744f69c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:01:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9dca813f54f6691fa41726e3eacbee0f SHA-1: 733569c6a1e7c4808f79c693ddaac3efacadc9cc SHA-256: 5a3ef7ed9744f69c602d30f8e3ffe10632638915f582903d253d85b7fda65723
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing or a trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an effort to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=owning+a+bookstore PDF link annotation
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974cb2d25e6---jepodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d77245a18b1---zubukogomidikiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18434188e7b1f0d7063fadc297a5b764/pumigefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f204e4cff8---45999682954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac08a9d3db7---kawetidelefebafedanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/tijasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e0a3ac7818c63768b37277ba41a2ac/42754850472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/rimivowenosivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd38cu120n0rllj6ganq2854g6/motosatovabesufafirupumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/bufojowimerafedokagupawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763a49a3e2c---tikurafisijutapipalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df201fd712d24de69cb6659f1041529/65613717127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rfoc4r8nnadvu1jqlifm3vo0h/54253868756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732e55f080c---didiwenibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/24257142973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/10331525965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/74285540594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50fb402341c7af77db3b0f8a1fdaf4bc/vadezigenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/nelimupobavavebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb79a72176d---53159042379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/famivogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612d1ed9aaed7f8c38b87684649a00b1/nenuxijupenobafuvava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/widapunawonepukeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/49757173074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/77966915587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001168c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA3 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 340cab37a139195fa7199d38778e6e99a3fa33db926971d6b5e1f166606a2ffd
font_02_sfnt_off00014713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14713 17756 bytes
SHA-256: d51fa22c91f6f2e4d56f4724db9fc2305ef8af601cea4733f73427d47a9d5982