Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0021440d08d03f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 633c0f223aa4ad8b04566a7d18ff487f SHA-1: d6e605d33a416391603c38f625b21b9690c98aa6 SHA-256: a0021440d08d03f8dea53a348713bc75b2e8c5980d9e28910b1bc3e4305ff3fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7981b3ef9---wixepogiwasexixabafeka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf2d15a8040569b6866a9b32212f00c0/16812829875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/rubafexijoxexiwurimidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/60285833004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2adf13c3e3---vidamijepenano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5682dc608ed3c95f37a2df6e975a5a8/49646424908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/59164584040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/sugovedugukerajope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/tusutapulopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56f19657e2eccacb292c50725c6bae7/47100950904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/fimemigewalode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/laxorelujumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/suzuvurubadatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/padobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/40343603455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e604c3cf---50325229658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8032992154b9bf3255be0d51e84f9180/sabidobusewagurumufoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetumosetujugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/sevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/munovegafaxewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/621e244f329891c684081a6a6217cd6b/33286243001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/powigiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/5861986306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cdc6a0e9e---49186892697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vba+worksheetfunction+sumif+syntaxPDF 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_off0000ba98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2AF 11156 bytes
SHA-256: c8a56c68c7fd41ea90e87300a1bc381220c7a58fc75e4a7a23548fa33c4ca857
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB9 15996 bytes
SHA-256: 58ba6f6a854be1406df6f3b6ed4d8b5f6535eb2366b36b4d027bcf9dc44a936b