Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0901e39dd4cb808…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-08-23 15:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0aea58c6b0de520142a383225ba7e4c5 SHA-1: 9feba9ef6cef23d24615306d98f2968cc0f91210 SHA-256: a0901e39dd4cb80830ad08ed50019cc86df3df1f31a8feb9204f272a1c68bfbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071767801b2a---92921846901.pdf
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/31488493844.pdf
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/44074835340.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871a12958c3---nodagujod.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpd5tfhtl3plbnndke38q8dbko/35044268880.pdf
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spblfe0h5upv0cuspjmtn5aq2t/49336643687.pdf
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukogalowivo.pdf
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/5367404127.pdf
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/tofame.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba3d4a5990---momuxigaxamufokonelazejuj.pdf
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/xewowamub.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c60ab483deb34ad31d05f81d416d1f5e/23170823677.pdf
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9cp5nplklc85ht4ke2rs6nts4/70747444891.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/94079913781.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec7ff23bfc7093ce9e17a59aaef1923/24718487454.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1ea0f1985---18851903731.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb8aed7904---95544577907.pdf
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/50807190140.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a27175d9b---pigenogumowilo.pdf
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/34070311372.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd8bb3b0703912ca96386ba860a3bc9e/6212397396.pdf
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/ganikudijezifufasuroti.pdf
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/rululofosi.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cfd018edb---23079531260.pdf
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa1c48d856897b409a8895ea1dc2a52/vokasutokunenemajawised.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=worm+gear+ppt
    • 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_off00011f5c.bin
9b56719dd79930415c46189bf5f235aea47d0b01bb1901edfb6ee14a0501dcb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5C 18864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014fe8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FE8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000167ff.bin
db1d5a0261bcc4a9f45d2e39b239736661218c74cc216daa168184ce5cdb5b46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167FF 10176 bytes