Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 800a527c257e5f3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-08-02 02:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 28d4a61bfa81f01584e3facb9fb574e9 SHA-1: 7016178c4acd11feb9061da79aa4cc3fe3e860ba SHA-256: 800a527c257e5f3f9e1d747a2e3e6a6ebe78b1ec418a4a534dcc2863dfbb75e7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+java+programming+brief+version+10th+edition+solutions PDF link annotation
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc0f17ed9---50905330246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2f37b146f---tojusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4cndoj3c9rcnvlha4ekt5sbk/vekepusidulivoginexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/14345173782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvrmah3hvc17do11ternf9demp/55604782587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769bb9561c4---54588925318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/finivupevaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f79cd1d30---positulezarilinabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4ca2ad4ea---koxolelimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/fugokizonamonifiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846b679bde3---sopufuzufuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed617b4b404e43104c69e93dad5d026/16147729404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigepaxinuruxapefisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5a4b47b0e---fudefebovupigiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c171ab2fbff517b545babd7884557919/damugusixasamegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/wekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/57654515298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae34e89d1e---xawejoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b7ed5b60a---90216794924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e628a423d---lonanutemiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050402215513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e10efcb152---bubivofurepuroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/29749894529.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_off00010073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10073 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11885 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 482f9087c9771f252f94113b4cb7d7d5b7c793aad13950b7653e0d544b322bb6
font_02_sfnt_off00014563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14563 11628 bytes
SHA-256: 7be54727633835f198880a99e348ab1c24f887fe51316e8b850a4f38770f923d