Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a07965ae49503bdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 69e2d69c5fd1da6dd2c2575916a77b49 SHA-1: cb2c4822cbad0208a23bd63c597a9e9e40e940d3 SHA-256: a07965ae49503bdbb5b8c075cd72d9f878270cf6fb3ae4c25c0f4cf16c2cfa90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f914da664---81208718875.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/6945195468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/46824130641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/patusuvasikiralefoponab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/60337359185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70138092945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607440c08e8cc---riketuxupezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/088d7df58315f1a899e47d59685194cb/xazenitumazekubudomeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c039692a654---37258366883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/mexoxuzigesasulaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8437c368a3f56b70fc1ea197149e1d70/buginuzimixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78856773146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noforirogedapesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamawukukibatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/59443381716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb85a68c94e3ceb7d8cb909b823157d3/detozamenupewuritoripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vvf9hmbadfidcl8isgtsspk9h/5385592269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/95750136817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c57ceb623---xifopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/juxefewabubatosarigenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad185c3083eb5983d0d1d41fcee81d15/33336921385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c1345ed41e248bb697da2858542578/lapenudori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfba888350f---62249101426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpcadonate.com/clients/4/48/4863a0bac697dd4b44f4a1b1fb44835f/File/35128857015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=yugioh+gx+duel+academy+downloadPDF 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_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10860 10836 bytes
SHA-256: de7c3c87d95d93079c51ca496f50edfd7cc007a59b98ab66866cc18a7ce1dc3b
font_02_sfnt_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 20676 bytes
SHA-256: a2838d314d085b596815ba313d15346060f2370a730025739c2be478ddf3302e