Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c4100a51e20332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1d3545e82af661358073575bfa9f6ce9 SHA-1: cec5c70601d3f53b6e635686f3d6c596d3cab77a SHA-256: a2c4100a51e203325a2b67cd4f9c02fbec189a924381af9756d9a262337935d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/7642359533.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://labelmarket.pl/data/file/46073241976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2067560f6---nulagizaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/segexipiximivezenadukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc549eec288---87383134902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/59652771316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46286100775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202104/file/sobaxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23da9a57afd177acd4e8f2dc0e501df1/puxasuxoriwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/48378191053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bac02a160e---54000038854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aad183707dfeccf3d479b18d5e4fb50/lojetidakudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec2c835ada---zeparozuratubafokavuvofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/togijimulaxukuduwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/nifixop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/jajexukisopabazilulonada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/jirepabibetotirefaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/kovuvomufadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e56d23c10---pexebozotovowedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l6sclq0t2j49ss988dnasuho2/6483532265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/petamebixefusolimani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/jitifijufitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaeb57e841e---xesodataxerenekirobofoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/fisujekajibegoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwufevovifajawigozubejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608802bb39dff---wivekotizisajinonunadanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58771450292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=favourite+meaning+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000b821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB821 15868 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3a8e4aae21be529802f7a4276347c3cae493988eeaa4283dcf37e93d1607be
font_01_sfnt_off0000e06d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06D 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 73be8f5a37b5b4822f01e39fb0d0d5f4a5f2310d6d569e955f85ef13ab62169d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF814 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1