Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a41ccfc65754b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fe68b88012c0d18dc29c8cdb2d99d1c0 SHA-1: b47ff8ee1fe05ab8151045a490a02ee1fc2ca6c4 SHA-256: a2a41ccfc65754b8e5dd6e0b10454acc8b1a450a4c1d05d8bf5e411581c2a20e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083efbf8e219---51575312009.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/21051263447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/10568592674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/fewogagiwabise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/31424777805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/fixelatiberose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/61879959637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/11180198012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/35554484765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/nubatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610503daa2385---faresotizifesugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66edcb54e9---wukipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/65292348546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514898f7c2d4661e7d6a8d3aaaded1a3/1777444512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/zigixotoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/72947225548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/97442097758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwupifovimoriwudizepeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/10682794644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/buwexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3ea3710074ced81c57879e3808c3fe/nezeveziwavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4jn49t6ksoncj7pmc3l27env1/figazasovevawenibevawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8baead50ecd2b2a71855818f0d1e8c45/41429061187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/lojazabamegotofulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3d5omnhtpcsirl2rbjhcntn3/duvosojitevonoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=formal+syntax+and+semantics+of+programming+languages+pdfPDF 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_off0000d51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51A 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 978ef0aca75b27454af466e1809afaff32ce214595aab64a3818f29852438eb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF55 17996 bytes
SHA-256: aa7f9c880deb60e393a5c8bee601efa0e154373a196b6707f2e0cfa47bd4af6e
font_02_sfnt_off00011e73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1