Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a177aed570d05d54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a460bb984030fe2dea2e433870e8f53f SHA-1: 1445d45999d2e88bff15be590002b64fcadb8266 SHA-256: a177aed570d05d542d8727573603aad4911894c07e1f498969d28203e4896824
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/5063456042.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ebd752b526c9d4288a9b0b720c883d/4328781918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/fegixegunake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/31155398816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72a6fdf0c2604c1711ef0fb17d19574/sunowaxibikufomojeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/nojeroretibutobapudezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8151e034ad602fdd67937a89c8bf805/wofagulala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/1346234713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/3031322162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/61786554221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abbbb12aea---mejonegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9497023980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/89195322073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gulbaharsigorta.com/contentData/file/23904724513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/xolajesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtke7ak9nksejqhcq1807ud9p0/40273108025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/gegosanopoduredami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/gugamobakopuxajepeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beta.nhatthiengroup.com/files/uploaded/files/85156642834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d95b411f2b---6745914120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/91182382852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cib.lin1.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/49682886565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/rusajumita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=open+android+setupPDF 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_off0000df76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF76 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 34b80986b73c958c9a47bb7503fee17e2536e9e0ccc9779de99bcba56c8702d0
font_01_sfnt_off00010df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF9 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 22c0894463187e3f5def5a5875cc957453d72192e36c0fe8149407b767ad8121
font_02_sfnt_off000125e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1