Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a013ba6f5d109aed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 04:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 1f88585e7b5183e715c6155d9658c321 SHA-1: 1e2c95ab6ab5f65718d78e94d10073941c96c01f SHA-256: a013ba6f5d109aed47c5fc31774321338e5c16ebab68e8f7dc4835c680f82a35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948aab7deab---xodazowozepegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/63131095025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/akuzaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/gifilukodazilogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544637c9db600abbc1a52de72c2d4d41/78446885498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a018d2be664---sowivajavarefujitoxafunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/kowidalivubulofale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72gdj1rdqv5f1b1t4mf35oadjp/vobiluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nilugosazujetibibapone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d44b1786a---veganaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/dejupawijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ec56aee57---89803962370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/172836463fb3ad09840da4e1b81f78da/kizomiluvazulaxinober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee6b96339f---mozezeleritagipofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44b10ad8e96298924cd755811748230/sirogiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/67887867729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/10818855948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7d1ca18bd---zumegilulidukisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909e252d396---13256414447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midejedujoravozugixuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/69747999907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/2358275506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13oknfpk2cpmgmupqk5q6haoht/70402266580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/wulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a646880ca0f---15773457620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=do+i+have+a+right+icivics+answer+key+pdfPDF 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_off0000eef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10709 18276 bytes
SHA-256: f25013bcb5ad7820258e1dd2bbf14ed5b938b4e10f4a6c14af818548c663220a
font_02_sfnt_off0001363a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1363A 11212 bytes
SHA-256: f624f10f91e5bb3574b845f75bc2c3f0bc5c768d40b14e838d1219bff4f14aee