Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0a8e30d9df27ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 21:04:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 69a77ba28f58ddc5064d9341c6d5f91b SHA-1: a2e3e68dac2516247f11513bd9819de30913af55 SHA-256: a0a8e30d9df27ff9061f955a5df9c87b93aaada47ec30dcffd6f288d34eeb158
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, such as 'http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c87f4d549d---saxosivewulawetesumope.pdf', are indicative of this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9012057611.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://test-immo.com/file/17868655039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/19332248631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/40681400426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/8896474304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce3280aab0---20828273166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/20079490624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43038778855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/36006550112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/30081080614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20407243768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/sopujoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/sirixosedezuranib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6316870419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/94543717905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3deef940fdd8de7061289db48e8f47/3850151584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floralojistik.com/userfiles/file/77484251876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents/files/kuzume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394cca3c694---32128652207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa8887cfc9---zewawirikobomaposava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/79508063889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/kobikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac87cc2183---26356406728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c87f4d549d---saxosivewulawetesumope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304c3e03db6---59439399808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=this+app+is+a+device+administrator+and+must+be+deactivated+before+uninstallingPDF 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_off0000d9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CE 11336 bytes
SHA-256: ea8f2f5923ead8955352a9a22c0c8cf22fb8b9d5ae3b2f790161ab92624e3f45
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF4 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 2840df25fa02fdcffbc96961c8b1d0bc9c5bbd2d3359f8abe3613304631b08ba