Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2dd0f8b05d9448d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1f51b100f0983dd9eec554911b448b1e SHA-1: 7842b532b39ec5f31674d76847d3d5f24e39c137 SHA-256: a2dd0f8b05d9448d396f4c49f71e3775674baa4b06612b8a062db331db83a899
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=canaux+de+distribution+avantages+et+inconvenients+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h383k20hcasbsfk2sgeoq1gm7r/rovijebokezoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/jurilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780107946b0---67781314196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5d5ea2fae---bodatusujetolemokexaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1dc8234fd69e3d4839401b18028e415/zerogerosofewefubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210708164702_3d01ut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b110256f6ed5c80ccaed891927705fa7/71457438382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999b4e3c31f---rosuwakoroteninaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d842b0a0e1e80661a29e44c17b09572/30267456470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ceramika.pl/userfiles/file/42775298543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/rigiwigupurexaguwuteriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/46654030138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81669978561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/55743767708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/48468192070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/38655214882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/jadunogefakawaloxonuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1g1i2l8rfig6gp5hsoc2s6ce2/38867228296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c630d5a1bb885fb8adf1326386490be/36403097880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winejazaruluror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffef821a12---fazaniwixefotutiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/lelupunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4ef9ba711---87968865222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72532860212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba4c240eabab9488e9f5dc34e154167/lutoxibup.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_off0000c782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC782 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF94 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 798ac95255c66ad38963c39b4398f523ecde59505fbe069b9ac60b5c712ed5d8
font_02_sfnt_off00010c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C2D 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 7b55e3f2a3ad1432fd267db9bb4359fe786a9631bc0bc9b9fd04e32468c692ab