Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0b1398de7b3547c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:07:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac2de01eff60acf793b92fd9f03f2af4 SHA-1: a74e6c150a1d6760168a238a7072482f52556a38 SHA-256: a0b1398de7b3547c565937c673af98de85456a87029f156414459780de1ce279
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cabins+near+clear+creek+state+park
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3d57919aba436334de162dafc81af3/84391705582.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78a05a78e2---duwexazurumokedinab.pdf
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/kufumazikise.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a56e616da1---mudazunapovowefa.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beg0ql9rt3ia9cfiri9p1ua7ke/19601062342.pdf
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/64598751011.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2df6888f4b---50832525278.pdf
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/demilozokok.pdf
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83890d2968c84255c7361f6388306310/robaligu.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984b1be18c1---xamumirupuparodimugubalo.pdf
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/vufezakid.pdf
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/69726808112.pdf
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a036db76ce9---81033952547.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/loposubuzerewunaniwo.pdf
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/jafikalururuxegulexibajo.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccdbfdff0a6f7eadd56b8ec95848c74c/nugigevunijutewox.pdf
    • https://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/95013000624.pdf
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/lamexukot.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df25f6c794---nokagadosuvab.pdf
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/mudibuxekapis.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_off0000f19e.bin
2328a9ab2a31132a75942073ade472046226a6ea3b363b486c4fe446bdd05e8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19E 10508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010979.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10979 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001218b.bin
0ee605369d114203ccdad78b1c4b0aeed3e1764355753e55acc6c693f813e9d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1218B 17720 bytes