Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1a028a489ecf678…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 17:57:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c8734843717be23078e1c4326076833c SHA-1: a42b87f33ebb5f2355186e49d9a78b1305610011 SHA-256: a1a028a489ecf67801eef9628278895f2ae1b1b7ea90340a27018321a54a1a5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely involving phishing or malware distribution through these compromised hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfec11a7e75---17154082132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a627474ad02---jeduwogixiwotovulelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a358b849ebc---sovitiselibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/zugamokekupefezarowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26115b505fd8c2ab41778f8763e86252/bipokutusikabejise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e685a09dc6---misaroxikilumilofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/11558509146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijujivabaresug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a5ee63a8d---xeferewavalenuperuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/xomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/misoxeguwujodapudukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/5687973459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3i8blfo5qt475sve6jgbphv9s4/26275904033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbb86ef613---dafapokozaxopelitubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608689c7c0034---lomedogobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/39491646014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41882825659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffdad795ae364bf5384e6dde57cb9d98/23362445839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e36cb660e1da1a3fc80172add6f4ed9c/72356010584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/zexazeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4c96e0c1b---vuxunumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab900792d4f8b4c6adb1745c10352f20/48871325074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a375c5264e3---zamerodeniwavopupudifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fd3e67f03---19062187774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=first+aid+for+the+psychiatry+clerkship+fifth+edition+5th+editionPDF 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_off0000d28b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28B 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 63d179dcc67951b95f964b7720e0de14d0679d57747d11269392797beff10655
font_01_sfnt_off0000fecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECB 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 25718933e1375c0eead3cd9e18b592fd6d5a6b109227b477ddbc18b1194bdb97
font_02_sfnt_off00011870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11870 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1