Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a0b1c277db7555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 01:15:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e0433f3ffa6ba60c15d2af474efcd95d SHA-1: a188f1c585e0ff8f767422cc585ae7ce453c407c SHA-256: a2a0b1c277db7555c02e5eaced400d4f894ea2f8600a6d42defdc441028e3c6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/53281304222.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/mosotigadigalawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/zevotokusakabobokosomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/4413564649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/8929_20210614032109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53aad073ebecff6d3e3f22be61620923/xirudegina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufewudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gj1aatsuhbe5n9l20pdkiejl7/komefivigirufexivawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161070c6f5f339---8695228259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/sunewuxoxawirini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/wavewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dteue3eqcmg7635cu7lvthqvc2/wakavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/wukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a97df0ff3---27808602899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3630a85fb---3580948939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461a835a41955a679fe6cf567e60d673/nawetejugidunigikufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/joxibokuwodotazuwebaruluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/dutoxininopuwokamixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91802bed170ca2d1417c105ab104c095/74428930321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zionhillfirstbaptistchurch.com/clients/73368/File/34426654362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19136687620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/32550707742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/mobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=balanza+electronica+de+laboratorio+usoPDF 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_off0000f35a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B71 10716 bytes
SHA-256: e2f445a5ab5b8d214c76f5409a77fee534e2d177f178c1144bde7445fe0061d8
font_02_sfnt_off00012437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12437 16952 bytes
SHA-256: f5d8f5d8ac503c127066ba7222c7b4425b6920d7b668912650ddfc8fe615b37e