Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e02b8fd54ad055…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 22:52:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4eac832fbf5cb6b0c23fd534287390ad SHA-1: 601a574548fa2cc8755c8a64ad21fbfb9ec84fea SHA-256: a1e02b8fd54ad05569316285a02cf3e2da4c57e7824643fa681688d56acbc07e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a campaign to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple URLs hosted on potentially disposable or compromised domains reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ea9c311994---lagiwezisij.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tp4kpoub73i5ka2pbe01alun1/86992579885.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326a03abba5---jezul.pdf
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/tojoju.pdf
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/badewiri.pdf
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/59403281201.pdf
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/nibijerebipod.pdf
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/kuxunubatum.pdf
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/duderarumobomoton.pdf
    • http://www.reeder.ee/files/filemanager/16018256528.pdf
    • http://nepalbestcargo.com/userfiles/file/mezivol.pdf
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufosu.pdf
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/public/view/upload/fckeditor_images/file/zisageniwewajirufigejepi.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c5feb94143017307c4d8b0ea32b3dc/4032623751.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f3a9e0bc8d---15456862318.pdf
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/62984595705.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/zaxexonewuvuxiwepato.pdf
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobosasa.pdf
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/sewivixoko.pdf
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/nemuxavuzuxi.pdf
    • https://kluchar.net/klucharnet/images/file/tabivusemosegodot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+philosopher%27s+stone+epub+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ac39.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC39 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c44b.bin
8e190df06767c737a84d36d2ce7f83fe27f6fb98c5542443e747c803fb30db90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC44B 14492 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8b4.bin
301a6d7ad4d4206d212e8b2489372ba176ab4530106a020f5813196c8fca88c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B4 10956 bytes