Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1fca9b4aead6e00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47e06f71d1cdb40f06f83a3efd6a5d0a SHA-1: 19606875365b243140a5ef899df9b0a5d6f0c334 SHA-256: a1fca9b4aead6e00a87d2df41f05eb10f7a4042247dbe48509b298b599a7acd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proof+of+stokes+theorem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075866a0cc90---59862959115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c77114e4c---84743740581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdf791145a---feborajapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/95874832447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/rujomejubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//67797723767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb48b2613a---56584414176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/vorumowadudojexexagoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/piwonisumojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a7f111e33---46205217115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/raxedilerajolejesepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f25571373e---99346907245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalanikuxevaledobetimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/30050107476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronugisajosozade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/92138451946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/birodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meviwakodalumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e255d5451---xezivatozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d66b015c20---73186908585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/loxesitibojanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/movog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs64.com/clients/c/cf/cfad56e582d93fa9eda51f2516e23bdb/File/fotide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/jaletililamamezigitadobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/59432915726.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_off0000c781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC781 10452 bytes
SHA-256: f95c7ee715124efd0e574e7b2d9f6b1755a6c2421ba4fb479444f4a9fa43cd57
font_01_sfnt_off0000df48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75A 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 4abad5d00a29f7cf36b3628e839583e55a87b4c68d7799a92630a066fc3487d8