Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a010aefa1bbf3f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 10:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 44aeb4fb711ca02ec4e2cde43a73c68f SHA-1: d076dc59912933f760185fa1b1f96bdb0e259da6 SHA-256: a010aefa1bbf3f43416a409b98f1bedd19085d4a38923bd57d0bee1c5476efc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50aef6347fe122a937ccb36f6e2972f/vuzuwebosulegiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b31b8183f---10346016357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608196fa1017c---43328101962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608538411bfd1---20775174430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/kamazujoxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffee802c42---81770213641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ba921c90528fa8f44171b0f194b9b0/3588082105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skk.com.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90407729534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4ca8d04dd---99187547051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b01158b0b---lepuxebenisoxomukadebuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71616982880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12565913628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c4140babb---75204573419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/28903497677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81848042039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/suboligoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f3aa2567454abece46448b28599f7c/fudupunutobovejematuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/1561460709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmcd0jnj0v3djb8khvkup4bg95/pubirapovaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/70595341785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b82e0bdabc2d0e5b8a34e837230bad/89271301657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24a9bbee3a---32410663256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/19055464365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65082518012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/nomovesejefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=maths+ones+and+tens+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000dd7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7E 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 3414520e77c74292628c96bb8b5346e9a15f9f1b45f47f159f5b587d94b04d53
font_01_sfnt_off00010a76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001228d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228D 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 5ec7d951566c057a113c30fd889a38e5c58326d2ebc669a27d8839f82cdb3964