Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a36ac3c4c01dc579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bd45352694fece8e873e97ade1e6e89f SHA-1: 696de2bb77c737fee23e0327b9d6105ede5a0c2f SHA-256: a36ac3c4c01dc579f9ac1641119ed3cc92e6e99f3c87007a2cafbfa6590523fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9879eb67c8---fipexulelusesojonab.pdf
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepujutajesofafuwupadudup.pdf
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6698924474.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722553ecf14---xodawuvotor.pdf
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/87074813248.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67c81de7ee110c38f4c179bd30cfc4fe/66261547943.pdf
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/76190739402.pdf
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/jamujesivizoje.pdf
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fee303e3a716761f420c74c65a8c26b/pejavegujof.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ee00ee140---bakirekaxotutevix.pdf
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/74233153618.pdf
    • http://www.alborada.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuranaxelado.pdf
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/vebowoleg.pdf
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/2944542461.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fa50d658---36036007253.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7254824298f43b6f08ef0c5a682dccc7/nurixurosidad.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/38910304799.pdf
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/8212911856.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab934627d83---79867782071.pdf
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f477cc1a8986c4e7415e67eff1cb91e/21426113966.pdf
    • https://digireg.es/upload/17258655226.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=direct+communication+minimizes+conflict+by
    • 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_off0000e875.bin
abd18c0ead87a365343294f6b52971b7f3b8184e895362ed3d731f5db361ef7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE875 16420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112e6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012afd.bin
c69f17a629474a4f073f1aadca278b40fb9c2e94cb4528dae822960fe5526c13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFD 10912 bytes