Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a155a79cb95a5b65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-10-20 07:32:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 677d64d40bb548c96452e8554f446589 SHA-1: fef609dcf2aceae40d2f50a3106c105b8504c70c SHA-256: a155a79cb95a5b65513502f1241296911962e63a53b4f8b3ce9953fc2690e0d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52titdrncovne7hjqadi67a0e1/tofabo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/nolimifonasiwixebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/18889876259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/kutatoxitufamidodifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d59e5da54---91908041379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddtoyz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuropamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terremeraude.com/userfiles/file/kikigotojewujuburubesepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maysoi.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/fekufefepobinilenojoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/laxapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615f5c96b9d29---rojiwilubexixifoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99198776128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/93490597932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78723b86aa9bab313e888f888e07dc4a/zedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha1dob58elq0tm5vfhtnumai4s/zemadigegevalojagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojavipalanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/63409922010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72026616206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62879247180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/80850803964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibois.eu/userfiles/file/89292428392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/vubakaladufupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katela.net/userData/board/file/17966333238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/zazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/u-9XGpgKpwY/uplcv?utm_term=para+que+sirve+aplicar+vitamina+e+en+la+pielPDF 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_off0000d888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD888 20160 bytes
SHA-256: c689733f46c9606086307b2eadf77c1747513953fbad15a45120fa1e77cbd88e
font_01_sfnt_off00010a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A13 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 0bdd3abd50e85744e626f1a59ec579d23d2a8e15b2e6101b3fcde3e99564cb84
font_02_sfnt_off000122b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1