Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00a9a4644c57961…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: d659570b4d674fed9d7bc8c5e73732da SHA-1: 4051a806943d2cdf1da157b9122dac67ea0cbae0 SHA-256: a00a9a4644c579617262850fda78035c17d2c9737f1d757f76adf65172b2bdfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, including one that redirects via Google Feedproxy, suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb4a2d9222---repodajogodatonekesami.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/lewumobisogusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607355c3b94e0---bafujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/62989793939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12b11bd4d005c26379dc14a588ac09c/17132961012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0473d9b01db510ade0fe25cb8d508f/malofelaroxepatenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf07c60a09cd19793933d3c828fa1fe/32811174325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845befb7451---wefisarejemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2a6fc5505ea3d292d64f088672a1b1/23678300125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db8ae9d9cf---36263283427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/48326356640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemimavofuxisadedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb169e31f429a7b1c90e36ccbe6e1917/xolufexusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/88954123552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e023bfa3bf17d4e1b118d5261d52d4f1/77748830138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/rowisojupaliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2e1dee4aa883f810ff731e9ae23f42e/sunopefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdce3bbfeb---96333150133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/wilaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/34337480133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bf0c3a420---mimevoxuwupuxozifonisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736258f07b6---63161729145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/zolovazikusaxaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c3930c88c---56826862421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+measure+your+ring+sizesPDF 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_off0000f461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF461 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 561f43d6c4e0973ec3ae498866fa00c9b9aad00177ef2c8f031742190f9e4bba
font_01_sfnt_off00010d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D35 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 1cc0e089c212c30760df97620f1406e6318a28174cd2b4a152df2a408d7bb9f4
font_02_sfnt_off00013a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1