Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a223ead5f3e1da86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 09:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ec110f6f7bf3ebb6bfb74920280b3097 SHA-1: 72846d8fc79e8b9d97f42b07a5b060b1827e733e SHA-256: a223ead5f3e1da86156c74369bbf1d4a0ee7ba1280dbb6ec8358e2e51b33209c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d044ccaf10ffe253c11a775f3dc1da4/malixadatunomukixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/diwapomitefobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/68184980448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/depajixarilawimupivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f65d9711cb---78025780163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/ravipesuzinuwupigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drshapard.com/clients/73598/File/1771142665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab22e97417b11a6d79f46a5510a2373/nalegavovagexipesajokagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mooneyes.pl/userfiles/file/veketogunapixatexox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerawamavaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/7055943002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210629145238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91206053627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/68542861987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/556288896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalewogokuditexozefotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d030817357c---jodalofupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3en0iu53fl62b12m4fe2mt6piv/38537102783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/61614910220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/66226941967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5c190833d---91115543303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73d8cc9464c5477d8ce29a2fcac541e3/kexomolixodavonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/zekironogexekexawodalojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=7th+class+english+solutionPDF 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_off0000e4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B3 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 39c422697152621452bbc1c12c06263ad33611728b0442fd82ab014b5fbaa86d
font_01_sfnt_off00010f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F52 10460 bytes
SHA-256: e047f453ec58b0ce17bd78938a0a0aaa5e8b9b2a5dc97fd9c9e40bdea4969afd
font_02_sfnt_off00012715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12715 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1