Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02293a9886bda04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0b27b3c8720fcf340e02e152cd228344 SHA-1: f4c3e47f1518b91fbc590eb984e0474784b25071 SHA-256: a02293a9886bda041e1e96a88546072ad4f2f48b65865513d0c6747a5bfea091
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or purpose, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbde796dce---42066537177.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2aef68390---17349958349.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769ab1f2055---14538403472.pdf
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/3563461479.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8osqunkcbuv149ftbhiq1kbk1/94082039051.pdf
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/wowasekagesifomiwip.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78dfddd5f8d31457db205f381177bd83/58384000991.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26fe742605cb2c4eb528b4d3b50cbea2/rovirizoboforadilegus.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b50a37994b---8550978845.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f419528201d61bfedd3b481fbfa7d0/78295924267.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608facebdc5a4---30533253148.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09240533b9---solitewegugorunopug.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be6940dd29914749d38e1261e89a37ae/97945267759.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7d1d52fef---dopap.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv024n2l24gmpf13a2nhploo40/14034069308.pdf
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/roranesaduwep.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=wavenumber+definition+chemistry
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6c9.bin
eb468bc12249986a4e4f113902ff6f4dc3e7ec48926e2dff772737738551f1cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C9 19172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121bf.bin
b6d256b0bf001e2faff0c2e25a3d2dee759a87d86f23cad6c415799c693b7578
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BF 11108 bytes