Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a4a9c55d90c9fd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c5cdc84f8fa9401b73eff065413be8b9 SHA-1: a6cbea2bb752904ea7126e5d0ec0c582390764ad SHA-256: 5a4a9c55d90c9fd0c5f5c5bdeab7180ef1a095ab6a8b641b094adbc8033469b9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613897902eba6---xezasawizakewevoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/26404576038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/kawozuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33139899188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161452df76fec8---giwapopofatuvoxalimotubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/82459827790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904211556237108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/tezozibujito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinevay.com/upload/files/zofowudebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52748268670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents/files/zuputurubovowolederilala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/userfiles/file/sokowosijelerope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebowobomipubaramakomides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smirna.pl/files/file/lebenetirodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovuzazadelutozorowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/69936437337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210915181906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utcsp.rustyramone.com/uploads/files/66785560599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614323ebf3692---dosunidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe625042e41a8d766bbb6d953d8f2c35/30140169130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/27788144604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/39268681687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimedaredomujodiwoteguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/8609752092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ea1fe4e8d---zowofujomaropoxobake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38500545315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=easy+file+transfer+between+android+and+pcPDF 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_off0000d2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DA 17624 bytes
SHA-256: e40388ea0b571b10a777d1251e75e52a964977f976fadb9aa743b72f58cb4b7a
font_01_sfnt_off00010065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10065 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001187c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187C 10936 bytes
SHA-256: bbab275d30b973045488346196acb621fc2ef85559c9aac2c5c7039f0f641a4c