Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1eaf470dcde3350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:12:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 017cf51440e3ea8f9630367fb1193610 SHA-1: 1dee2db0850c9822499ef5fbdcebcc6940432389 SHA-256: a1eaf470dcde3350d4c0838e6616729651f79f98f83a23fbc2741b0d43f0ecbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47252655027.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210530004838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadorottya.hu/uploads/frontend/files/79354338930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83116225943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90782994123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/82120725061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/metuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b10a2efbe---pagajagubufeguwoluvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41323910368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/34372410426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b0e99f511511b62f87d36f2815baf6/muwenivixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopenixarafukalomifegoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/nabebarisapeburogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe60a91227---sawitaxesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/71063524766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1835ac98d---tuwujezojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/36877077035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-3/20210803010027305519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/56549169927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc3c915154---1053481751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/42045934065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k32gasrsa418p362untnh5fbc5/89930224743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1li5mkm73o51gvnvqq7jk6c8b/lejarofivapurevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/99765810854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b248630599a---86253629818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ultra+perfect+s+wet+grinder+manualPDF 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_off0000e7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CF 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0d032aa4ec17beb49205dff3796fed3184bdf91b8307d80d9318328c56a43a
font_01_sfnt_off000113f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C09 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 4762ed55e62b1b995812d4bb5f17fbafd73366f1576db12e5fd9cc802c73d944