Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e8e5212270d4f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 44f05b9bbdbe91f20e686201b9e08733 SHA-1: 94edc71fb694803646f19975348fae4527e75edf SHA-256: a1e8e5212270d4f69ec8f2e74f0eb89d74f257fff1ad33a579a1bdda4c04357b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and embedded URLs align with common tactics for distributing malicious content via PDF attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/86384303996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/loralemuwudafunedamegiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2241a754ef121fff3d5c0b7c3869bd1a/rozupirifoguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontis.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/wamujanexulowigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16130e7134fd81---fegezerixixuwonola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/81395394022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/36850238939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137dff2958ef---29446872228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/saxuxafadijoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091219564954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/57069194920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/18368468119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210909105501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613021da9b7af---70556382088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/28428044903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/voxerefurevedutugofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133293caaaab---fapobidefutuxowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/vepowoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76335352097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11748912381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workontext.ru/media/file/lofewozefekumogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--spreewaldpension-lbben-9lc.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/38715297220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61937484920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=anybooks+for+androidPDF 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_off0000cce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE9 21004 bytes
SHA-256: 697bca78c75aa02e3b9f9d501a41a32570e7e1c6f610e1be9195e63b8bc28a90
font_01_sfnt_off00010440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10440 10400 bytes
SHA-256: c60b4e456cf4f3f6e060f577d312e533a026f908a0f2af5b5ab47b67b51373ab
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1