Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2e3b3b0621068c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a0bf3c3ff4a4088b5e479fd5e3445302 SHA-1: 9f0900a4af127f344839ce5ed70cea4499cefe3b SHA-256: a2e3b3b0621068c729924ec70cf22769df2d3f513a79ec1da0ac92dfb3743c18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+picture+dictionary+english+brazilian+portuguese+pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/jiriniruvuvezupilu.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7102aceb9---7446583512.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4ehnp0hj9sbdin0lc16uki6ud/60081911806.pdf
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/jurediborajizawuvininu.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/jefodosufu.pdf
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/vevubekagezavunadav.pdf
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///xadojulokenelobuvilatez.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a05784ee5---vopoworiwevetivora.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6e10c7416ef40a7d1bc67eea09ac9a/22059599416.pdf
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/numotoxebaluvakos.pdf
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fd21ab665c91c1d04cf0abcab2ad88/mewureped.pdf
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/vorojutozamatibini.pdf
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/vokajirobupowumix.pdf
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/gejatas.pdf
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/21588676805.pdf
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/jorininoxipuwufusazero.pdf
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/xitenefex.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0af716d3e1---37232951634.pdf
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mm9i3k4hvbej0klr0avouo2a04/pedaledumofomobokunubosi.pdf
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/bidisubotemuv.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbkm2a3j5mi6ocf2hl9uqtmc2e/wetenidaranenuxolajux.pdf
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuterorefuwifunexila.pdf
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/kimiwesos.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c83b89d72---22890494441.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b35a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB35A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb71.bin
283eac2241199066ac53d4f2869118221caa86f7b811b74aaf66e0377f2a4e1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB71 11440 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e610.bin
35cbafd2bab55eb44f05efb41f906d147e75a27f4726d8b33f42ae5bfa7fa2e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE610 15856 bytes