PDF malware analysis — malicious · a16223a993156b27

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:35:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11

MD5: 43d5cd74849e70840eb1fb5d6c739e1e SHA-1: 2a4dab9500e442b3112c720f112c5cc96b7434c2 SHA-256: a16223a993156b27e1666d33673a6045e98624bd6617ee34dae0594a8618553a

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious content through a link farm.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0936008001627095155.pdf In PDF document text
- https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983dc89c892---tikofamejofodefitajob.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62f750c9b9dadb322817d6dd3f7e8841/zusoxifixiguve.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7d55ecd2c---96419130010.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0nscmqat161ps7tufueem3mci/sawadap.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/6310977161.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c974491b0b2---ronenewonuzanisuzoruziged.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf7544e3ec324d899202653467fa9d00/pamapopefonubutodedenegos.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10aaa4313e96abb2e84f6b9746e1b0b5/pupibeveguvubunimodewu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/wulapiparinexuvesisatofi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p75bk53rrojeqqlnv590lujp2/60630282431.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turedekemesavusidinebu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///92012037708.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9853ee7d8d8ccf09d7b486902cf5cc1a/64040614345.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/65889921783.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0487cef222abc13b49715ec6504e38/22621124909.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e05893e09621e10cba1542bba42ffbe4/tabidirexuzoxivolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f27023bbfc---13000776858.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/mulutu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/29414295147.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/93971150871.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/merik.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6e590f9df---62567039870.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24589792867.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb6804078ee---tonizo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a007fae9002---vepewapibuzopu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609450466638d---vesemugiguzerajemik.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/63913935607.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=lirik+sholawat+nariyah+pdfPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000d426.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD426	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000ec3d.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3D	10712 bytes
SHA-256: `ba5b0d6d4fd2fbefd1243e5ed828356c76acddf65eefddbe46828cd21837e02e`
`font_02_sfnt_off000104d7.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D7	20904 bytes
SHA-256: `a3db26788295a698e37762e324328b018a2ce1472bf921d3e3c285ed8cca050b`

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