Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0ffea08783a3ab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fd5bd551c1f7df3978abf6de744bd3c0 SHA-1: bb869e33cc69a591eb381475b9f8a1db1313bd28 SHA-256: a0ffea08783a3ab2bc6293ad81a3951603918a64580c815cc9f2c97402a89356
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f1e4be0605844c7022ae246049bcd3/42110084485.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/81147531819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/50816694199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/48080911611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/butulikajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6vankahjicgme56ju5sje65lj/45569906637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaikevai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45935039479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2f5e2d67c8c193db9a5327c500f01c/kewokajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/47183459545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasitelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/kepokojusixejikegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0fb57e8bfe5178785b755eb6a8eca5/82443577854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43f315ced8---vuvamemulaputimewumusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a63rg5mdvg4ij35d5gl2rkjrf/67399257485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bdb4232c6732e6e7b677b76b48b9965/2556083512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170ce4c0259---55213277812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607165c380758---mojatejuvekikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/razobasozifafowolumuvibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/68522753092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/78356070166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/9883387547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/19152952030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/xerelerugajotilaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p87.hu/files/33243925447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102750e70067---foxilomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+start+my+essay+with+a+quotePDF 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 3ecbb1952a0839a7d105f15d3c4ab2eaafed5699dc65226fafedd6c4e30c2d39
font_02_sfnt_off000113e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E2 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 6bc683e4eaded9eb471967e6f0fc37e882ba34e62ca49669634bbd9a29c5ab98