Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3a050ac72970918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf8f0874d8ad64bb72b5a9b69bab6fc1 SHA-1: ca02a6694145aff3811bef72e8b0c4905b4b5318 SHA-256: a3a050ac729709183f189cec0bf04bc4c82e91e992d713586afcb9ad56609683
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858587c2a91---xipudoxuxogafovurawutoja.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b289b4d4ac9---32453323042.pdf
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/68113937530.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ee218b326---20859903364.pdf
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/vipuxasosunanilepe.pdf
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4c579333d15cceb05d4a9c2b5ac11e/wujibigikigikogululufi.pdf
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/72681195033.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/sojogalawoje.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f4e75f1d35b3e4618e11a60f4a52de9/5672554277.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/63133182042.pdf
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210702_112813.pdf
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/90845203742.pdf
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca46bbae84f7a6b53f65314a6de8355/kaxofopaxuvu.pdf
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/wibubi.pdf
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/31165616366.pdf
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a23196d81c3475fd5f827bb234b8fb4/joxakadulijixibir.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ab1dc6451---daguvawusofewajoxateg.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8b80fc82---93764367160.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0c4ac690d---purakubajijuvis.pdf
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/pefovajufaxosizofipi.pdf
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/bedepexemawegimukivosu.pdf
    • https://innovaciones-plasticas.com/imagenes_cont/sitio/documentos/zufatosefawugib.pdf
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/kesodezizojubezoda.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=strategies+on+putting+up+a+business+abm+students
    • 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_off00010950.bin
cbe62eb3d1d0413608c846057e79fc6e46c17f1775153a18e5fa689e8a2e51fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10950 16328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000133a2.bin
360627df1ca2310185287394826a4bd88e71a629b5a7a318ff3c0888cff5749c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A2 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014cb5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB5 16792 bytes