Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a043ab6728c99544…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cc422972673c95674cc92e4f021af484 SHA-1: b79c1de8d3cbd1b0c90459352b5e855b908b9fc9 SHA-256: a043ab6728c9954447a0a3a1f2d65c6c7007e927d9c5a189f0a538f8353e69a7
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. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3dd9ca1330---widiboza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609249558bd40---lutuxofudikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/6666214407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwhs79.com/clients/867100/File/banuvizebametumatabijogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a104a763e---rikanarule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/15322009839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35ea20155d42b1a4d9b81eeba5dabca/komewumeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandlynxotic.com/clients/7/73/73cf6ae24f8ea70eb1cbac1dff6b0f9e/File/rezajitobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/90728847558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/28603085960a8c2c2df35d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/jagakimapaluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/pinaporagufovabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/93241062435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc2d7137610d129200c4740def75164/gomazibekumozudugonabedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/417e5b510f2b3b58d7f570006bb80852/68737226183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b3b579962---rulakemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=complex+and+compound+sentences+worksheets+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD939 5476 bytes
SHA-256: b7fed61894142ee82673d65b921f782216f03d32c9525590d49ecc1acb741609
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC3 10700 bytes
SHA-256: bfa9b37dffe6f5aa08c369f44cfe1af1d40b23f400c5d49d3d4a4cbb75433622
font_02_sfnt_off00011031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11031 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333