Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1af07f46a3c0e41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 13:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c7a2276c09eaaca3d19ecd8802e8b95b SHA-1: 6af5e6356744c2412c0459bd5fdad8d3649ad7e0 SHA-256: a1af07f46a3c0e4179325b351aa8040a5b5787d529c60cacab7c1046203066a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b8c7c10105e63433c7c6465ffc3b90/29780113127.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/15494270048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/9777249094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/32979961129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/70517890211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/gevurimilubukivixaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/62596320398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50478c5868---74214595768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae59a885dc99244abb712afd80c147b/bexomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unioncentralreunion.com/clients/3/3a/3acd25563584ef55397927d4124196c4/File/miziviwipujafexomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8748d146403017157295d336227aca/37956455516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279nqql1903djss601jgikpo12/94472443350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bbf57014a---548953843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/27471198726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be9a2c0d5d9f8bae25ea73975f8313ed/saporudedapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmij6b4kibdd8enelrqr5boutn/pakofatetunaxasujoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f8c93d368fe16cefd44e938c7e8112/mibojebovefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/17081323115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/32917710689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a7d56bf3c6b83abe062f72b80a56a7/sukekajafufelutazodezavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607970a1aaf81---22170099476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/99443470251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d626567aa69bc344483672513888ef/35147361126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/89238803708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+tor+browserPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61be6475700a551a98c4708267ca44c/gamibalenoxidilorofovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fa1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1D 9900 bytes
SHA-256: bfcd3123915ab6687932fef845f67c8b772061701a0b596eb40cb5a8bb2f3d1b
font_01_sfnt_off0001102a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001283c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283C 17160 bytes
SHA-256: de79afc234b7628bec6d1c6d924b48662ecf799fdacc88f1d7134f48e8ac99d4