Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0fadd8d59efd3b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-10-12 00:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e1c9c042d6ba8935e5add8bbe0e26920 SHA-1: e4c13584b3e15f123c70d2ed85979f212b866c02 SHA-256: a0fadd8d59efd3b390e7fbc7abe590eee0287013c437407d0d1042e3e9a52141
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The presence of multiple external URIs, many hosted on what appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the final destination or distribute malware. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/25522962386.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161641db75373c---90069325317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf58b6bcc7c9d458d5a0f3198a1c010/21197814877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52899481868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/80874766131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/najetimitalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de64fbf5844abd58a32c38013a238cea/gatezoduwutudejovazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a7d730e50dbb80cea2f9c3e743cc69/25564982080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://38e5bbdfe8be.gdziezjesc.info/userfiles/file/12293538668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalstage.biz/js/upload/files/93289856162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aztkgb.love-mrt.com/upload/files/63014807037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/botolugobivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/tesesuxuzatazopimilawene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/bifobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/2957165963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/91896036769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/kibekizurezuzofigesewude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/ridores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/2052159818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youzedu.com/ckimages/files/20210905095136488201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf5cc2902b11f6de7ef14b89b50113ad/48777872962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/85754047037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/86600574050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/tifabomifaxujogufojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=density+of+pure+alcoholPDF 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_off0000dd17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52E 10792 bytes
SHA-256: d2c4bef80902136c3679725dca7fdb1671204d25d0a09b8e1443b4abfa5c7878
font_02_sfnt_off00010e10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E10 19740 bytes
SHA-256: dff8a5211e681fe8ad69e603e4cc1eeb9272a00770cc3f32c234d17cd0ae21d9