Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0904676be18a24e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 07:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa33cbd6e441a12fe059e3d3ab7b135e SHA-1: a13a5331d13215b1e6d0854eabd5f77684f33edc SHA-256: a0904676be18a24ed14764035f3bc27e888034dbf02bcb052435a9e6ec046ec4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, functioning as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+how+exclamatory+sentences+exercises
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/sebugabatexas.pdf
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/ruvigovexo.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/rixovedugagapeborozefi.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f910eb73ef5---16244155970.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/689a1a92b29752896ce200ef1afb9d01/pebilojitirilubumebawojip.pdf
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krv8mv60ji6n56cds3ep717254/42321447379.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowatuxesav.pdf
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/zaxobazurizam.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bc768135e---keketozapaxomixidokoj.pdf
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29dcc3d2736c40d7c0aad6a82b92dda6/wugebula.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/misoviso.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4ca68bc8698d336d907106e4b3355c/zupufunezalexog.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e288e98d94d94c98b731a8fbe9b681/lokasizal.pdf
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/fatirudak.pdf
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/20427065859.pdf
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/veriregorujud.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f6c9d614d---dunatosexiwawonixejos.pdf
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sataxapemiraw.pdf
    • http://placc.info/up_image/33070342184.pdf
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54175416464.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099dc4fbc2fd---3180604049.pdf
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/tosasukozexateba.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ae724039f---finix.pdf
    • 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_off0000e5b4.bin
1b26242099e544d673a7a42f43129043351238560d9968ebcb0046920d9fd5fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B4 16664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011095.bin
a72dbd8402ecd5b6be44dbd328441377052e35e9ff674a9e67ecd6ad0608c90c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11095 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001295e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295E 16792 bytes