Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a059243e4a7f733d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:04:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ce76832df6f0b3e46988f55ece598f5a SHA-1: 0c1fe7b3924bfe36ca8337b039fa8266fe2e1628 SHA-256: a059243e4a7f733d19328835bcaedce02b0f80d2bd2d98daad81b333e7879c7d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses a browser extension installation lure, a common social engineering tactic. The document contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/160b6303a62705---zisajekudivizikobola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/78722504877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/20348790728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/95750744704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfa9517217---pomixedutodafatedekabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/65391411413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripibera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/wetoxajata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/ratixujasidofexamudisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/31824246061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/fozujaxamakovizanumajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/95887122405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaa511cf53---dijuxisepezuvitefuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/43378039097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/kunovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/fujozokiwewunixidesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/53581104681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b503f9081b7f21d812c8856d4d1d0b/17396514277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdeb6522f4---wofofevewurawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021062017112670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26c29ebf2e---29243124109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1969.com/clients/876766/File/xafotekedawumigume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/lebegemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=model+resume+for+engineering+students+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_off0000e694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE694 10772 bytes
SHA-256: d6d5411f11240df5fc6a8ee926df8062cfa969a7d6da9a5992337e497c6c643d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11735 16972 bytes
SHA-256: cbaf6e5a2b883e6ad67b40b7fedbfff4eb024bf69ab4e20fb27b523c0c7b7ffe