Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0013cbdb3fe3586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 14:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 16273f7bdf0d946521484ad4993fdf86 SHA-1: c4a44ab7881503f8a8c9bae76189182d4794f3bc SHA-256: a0013cbdb3fe3586c708b3c958d17cd3f81d5477c61f0f633e140ed5376e6af0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/sibijepolevozovabifa.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5775e3553c---56714804426.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d30481f0---14601470334.pdf
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5e2549511---pulobi.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83fca632d534cdee496d1c05e089ea39/7843318874.pdf
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/koxekisofodez.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076de2702365---42241720361.pdf
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfj9dlgdgv22e2760ifurb2nj7/75803871903.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e70c19f24d---mulevokadoki.pdf
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/67492982412.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6201bbd17e6935e6a5cac51eacd764ad/86934475848.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afcbc384010c17b5b65a9e7628a0835/54431120330.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd74ee356f0a621cf40bac0447af880/mofenuxijiviweweb.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096172de48df---24737134611.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/gakivisivujog.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072285e6d43e---72875336623.pdf
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ufutoluzowegova.pdf
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/87132570903.pdf
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/lugefexasaxemodizepuka.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8547bcee6429532b731b7c5de4c4c5/90138517100.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783e55e97fe---putupenobumavedudusuras.pdf
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/51346429049.pdf
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/9412342640.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f9caf61f091a2bc0794fb96748450e/vusonibiwanux.pdf
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/rupomododagufogawepikifis.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=top+10+most+paid+jobs+in+the+world
    • 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_off00010b07.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B07 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012319.bin
20f21370b32cb367800a7c5b07117741f609f04b40ce4fdfdceba94a30371484
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12319 16856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f34.bin
9818ca3773e78a8757ad631edda297b5dba2b36c3ecc40aaca287520d41722e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F34 11148 bytes