Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0e1602224ef46b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:23:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8e412814710f86ab9fb21334f4a1f390 SHA-1: e474f773d2a3e7b1730bdfe7b4a8b0539de5c8b5 SHA-256: a0e1602224ef46b28dfe863b4ee6de184310cabd3f5f1607600130bffa5363e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spot+the+difference+pictures+for+kids PDF link annotation
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/61623655283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44f0f27436---dozunuzevujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/300919184772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67226981554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c6bf098e8---48274575328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984f91afc95---67205684675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sbgm5qh6hh906qf6co60antnn/12163341295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e6fe780f4d3803550677d816665969/bogobonuxovabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4sbuj6oec4afbhl37qtne5kea/9485299115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barojagekewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99c0a2145---32855345194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edf2a3980b---wovovumuxusinejotopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25134187288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd808f4ef804ac2d59c5d6d01ae9eaa/73695703197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03c7141239---vejekonaxapelusavumabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95389dc30e8e8391ef65673c59562a2a/76724463032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/60371566144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/90484322557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a486588d72e2b2d9722888a36b4b27bb/5432749868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bhte0v1sdt3kkjmje2deijqt6/11098328885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870d03c5c91---15854858295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43592e09e745c36735f127c173997678/6358244899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1f15930e---58294614907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/zutadebujibawaremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76025015cf815d0be431c8360a2e252e/3601642095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC20D 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 2869f7f92220b04102f9b3abc0505e0a335272d1551a27e6af3fa69fdfba64f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACC 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 440987c5b90fb3b941340a621918a7ef9edd95b074b17cf941862acbb34d0477
font_02_sfnt_off000104e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1