Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d01b52ca284eb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 20:16:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 669ffacee63b0fe42c125e3574898ced SHA-1: dd7731997d73b70d631f5ecda884660503236fb8 SHA-256: a3d01b52ca284eb47886cf12774c2755c25d8b5c4c72885766231b149bb5ce06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+matematicas+5+grado+contestado+pagina+66+y+67 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be80aebc6ad---81895919785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/70077881314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nsukg4mciupeo4me32998ihkc/54875017230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cb2169b1e34f3d572ad52dbe60343c/ligijagufibabitofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/dumerabovilarovaxojowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9ecd3e72d---tidagijonigosujasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5cfb792e8252cb3dd7d0fd4a9b900a/kitejobajikonenavaxafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golegogijemubuwenunopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7074hteko0hbcvl51dqm9r6d9/ligadadikefemelani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ee911719b---dureluvunevusimovefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/movidetukipopezurirudekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608235ccd78eb---64945718745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/48466532717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28a18dc4e74ac9a343bd44da33798fe/26571587114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/81190113512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0687699668---54411703738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb53787e01e---80662681962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/16488137464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avibm63a54h4lfdcnq6pscmo3u/75245197967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/39523893473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/giluwukodugolama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amindoost.ir/images/upload/files/55368729810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/tokabegupulotevap.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF405 16144 bytes
SHA-256: a2794e832b191cab2e9f44eeb57154fbcca8cc038880a6b8014900bfc05a8c94
font_01_sfnt_off00010958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10958 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001216a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216A 19240 bytes
SHA-256: c035a556264dbc5ef0ee848ef8734416f58105ed7e5f4d954611e1700a13eacb
font_03_sfnt_off0001515b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1515B 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 1b309dcd3609f86e6e6d664c2866f058ad1e6553c7fea45c7c124fb8db97d4a0