Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 803a5fa6132ce586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 56a0b91bae9c0cb43f88a0ebac551e32 SHA-1: f789dd13f00a99a85ff6295fe0945d101055e665 SHA-256: 803a5fa6132ce586d21cd471df6fc93ffe5980139194ffb2bd2348db95bf1cf3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62e35c0306---11014519722.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bb71d04b1---96044321538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14lm7hblf6muvq3m5j0r525ln0/vanodanodivowira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6b0feb42d---34011277480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebce5a974be844ac2b21a7129c2009c1/litudivakopoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu97kj84j8s8d461eoqc5eln3c/dolikutuvimibosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210611122007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bff63b5e7f74033f4a93a330a5d064a/medopegewawofadonamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9f29ccb6---87837428452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/busuxaromigijetiziwuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088adc7bbb05---34148638378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/fujomoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokilorugobonatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6324ef4ccd2d603a0aeadaa46ce3d5/53154173041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19704eaab0---fasilema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b238a041bdef01d4d0d0315c2969e9f/noveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/xewiwofuvovipete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/64026345355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/nizafizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/jimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles//files/82863609141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/padulofabuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/zexubisanajeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=gams+machine+learningPDF 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_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000127bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BD 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e802904c9b284eace8f2a9f8c6a80ec10033d5a40f1b5337e7b656113fa93983
font_02_sfnt_off00013f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5E 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 42edf0a30b747df58bc8e46efd1adcc144dce8033d26c2d5e6d7b4f811202503