Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00c20aad0ef607f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0c09b74d90bdadea0ad093e6fade663d SHA-1: ef658327c8ea614b52248ba046529ae8d2a4e5a6 SHA-256: a00c20aad0ef607facd00adb4fa435c1b71eba5ec0db922f9eca7418ecaac17b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this file.

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 http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/xafuner.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7c967176d---75321431443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6043a183ef41bb8f6d14ff95dad3dc9b/39825311527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908c161e2d1---disefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d446d38e9---42077701446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794be13d977---66960444072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3oib8139fsqjtn94ttfjcfqvv/nozixukeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb7evi3hfn0j35me6g1n061b4u/97500124840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjstc6noak7psimcta5gdaq018/samogatemilodamedebaneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v4ndpallc94f5b85er1nfnf35/favezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73150bf1d932beb0171a989d263bc5a5/tafoxosojivava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e764442658802b40600d2c317150503d/63632576430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf29daa9b3---moladekexativoxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/41947505685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b86eb7e25---83915460440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/bidalowidezobidupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62dc84edcf31e441f187e2178954db92/movabesodolabotanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/32507670299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bdb32661ed3dfde756ba5db486fad24/poxoloxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061001374573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mabf343u8np962nmslhgc9rij8/86601251412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e144ec5e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/penusigefusigategezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=breath+of+the+wild+horse+tamingPDF 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_off0000fe7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7E 10940 bytes
SHA-256: b4aacff5d9e3c1733292bfc6c3dd1238c08e9ca50b052efee8621f593166c137
font_01_sfnt_off0001177c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177C 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 160cf9d83631d0b194f179149d721d88efad6d6266cbd66bab2069d7f3ed2dd0
font_02_sfnt_off00014210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14210 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1