Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00a883223faac63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 099fbcadc899fd0fbab8b200d72e60f1 SHA-1: f45a9438511f96f970af9503c09cbe3995c66431 SHA-256: a00a883223faac636a11f2f9862162c29bf2092d82b5551b1a4750cdc9edb7f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or link-farming lure. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e87e294505---pusaxopavativorilifujik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/xisubuwetudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/fojesagozotusewawujeteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/64015483187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/53304297493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/bubokidinifural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65cd7db79e02bc838088da3d6313aeb1/lebewivototit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2f95d4aec---lukijonijijerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144d0b9f8b381858877be2107c646b23/61403237995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8ilgjop0c595pgreplbru6g7q/98999371276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/89631671160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ce3f91ca779517f5af4ad70439bebc/53987553578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k3on92aup2gpmutsqj7jdmhnf/zezosowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgc33ma0cpnri6si7vbp5tc755/xonufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxudowowumoxekarup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/sobilanifakufopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9pqbhfu85ka4g2giinecfe0ns/ruzatekafuzunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/fozujimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/liwalumuzizokamijopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/49746618794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/41309110791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0j61l9e3db97lu3lqlcmq982n/66677478894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/85540974096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cable+one+tv+guide+lewiston+idahoPDF 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_off0000f524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF524 10852 bytes
SHA-256: c2992aa32c72c2ccd20ee00c97748fe234ac2b872fef91844c836b923b00c834
font_01_sfnt_off00010e04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12616 16804 bytes
SHA-256: dd9e6ff7adee60b51367d6d03d7b8b1438dba3b666a8c445035dca68caff0f00