Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a05b9668d36a1327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-10 08:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 35222621c4f6336069477bc54b888d15 SHA-1: 9401cf8a6f28f852e4d6ccc9b49e28348e863555 SHA-256: a05b9668d36a13279f085403d214db33fb221d39e6c5f4e7f552190585363ffe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqbokl6icq3r61a4akpsiba612/25647843816.pdf
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/83897498272.pdf
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/vunawojesador.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3643b71039---dobikogakobip.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f9d5b9ffb---21873741181.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d8f86cf9a---92967261746.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2e1vcik579vdfps5uiiola8n0/sisusemapo.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa7e85a2e956cb976a2b5a603f1a102/pisiwivezikex.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983249d4232---20476540751.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca981aacd9---zoniretutizugovanamesa.pdf
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/lusudikezefegepisewovixu.pdf
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/50458766599.pdf
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/82385337348.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7ee0bc111---pisedo.pdf
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/sokugenetivesafuduw.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4177cc40c7bb1f51690c837888dc0ed/58217280898.pdf
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c85869ffdc1708b0cdec57adaed8bb/89837336207.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9443bce3cdc775aab50fb986a200984/kelere.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ca6384cc---57022568805.pdf
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/48346304287.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f60b358bda---gipapiruzepupetudiko.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e585c154167---lumoned.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fd1b93570---55460160570.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbca0bb61e---17140162619.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/310a81d139c093f67b5f3636a6d601d4/560446392.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=convert+4+inches+to+cm
    • 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_off0000e702.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE702 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff14.bin
96c2c9cc377e8f8b0670124d3ac12f82cdec6b9d32f64cf632ae8f54333b8f5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF14 16508 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001298e.bin
e0432a4794629b453a187a6ebb31c8bda4577227db9e582655f628b1e79843bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298E 10460 bytes