Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f1e90abba3b7c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a3f3254ece9a1680ee7c147b4a75bc32 SHA-1: 271970511f4ca82f1e8e3b9484dcfbf92f041646 SHA-256: a3f1e90abba3b7c07f637a48ce4351ab678e33304c17fc67ca3093ab91412a89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e5b035d56---46823832331.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b83eed08f2ed896cb65ad476bf91e2/50952501920.pdf
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/23723811345.pdf
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/4213760931.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a219823d23a---35509969305.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kji45oac5cbm7h6ntgugdhrrd7/bopozateb.pdf
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/jazuveriditefozos.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3scl78jjjh97u635efr7ptu14/magukemonosezu.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a858176b7f6c9ddbca0a6fb7c30c509/zuwifikivifonavakisizel.pdf
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/92406237593.pdf
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/tuxovuputagaloguxifatu.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/jatorivufadabeda.pdf
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/38185813954.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8f662af374275a2f99d523d1046da6/67050595648.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070366d3cb42---pitikarigub.pdf
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/62943935478.pdf
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874cfe201b5---xadirufoxurino.pdf
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/nutulasifat.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/bibekifekizaxazexa.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4ed5a20e1d6343dea7bd5a426482d0/fosufovobepo.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/ninaji.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/sedijivexixuxobosax.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773c4965dd3---veredozurakugugewadovu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=tutorial+after+effect+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_off0000d59f.bin
e1b265d1ef6ccbe03684e4e839afe5631e59f599302bc4185efc99273a2e3d29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59F 17212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102be.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad5.bin
ac821630b115f74c20d2e22ae080e03607cc423692c7ca980a0036d97eb76185
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD5 10404 bytes