Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a431cc202b2e6e38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4280d154fac38be81b3e51a9eb6f6390 SHA-1: edd43560686e8fd5e749a676cc9d4f4256567eca SHA-256: a431cc202b2e6e3864fac55f3fe72480a719a03e77d7635f2f6d82257bc40dae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised domains indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074911a902f7---jimutexagozafoluwagele.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a845c96906---98827483265.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ccda93f34---42234716520.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/10609959404.pdf
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/tosevugidej.pdf
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/23919623582.pdf
    • https://yalcinplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/renebelolabiluja.pdf
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76362643321.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b8e1f3e78---10058277602.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608767f3a53d7---53925688241.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bbd058d9f---53267260038.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8682860a51---sopitavepatifijejir.pdf
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j6mc3g1tua4ad8qllsuls8o05/24552521918.pdf
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/63291507336.pdf
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/30022946784.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7b7aa62c1---88341111844.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888e6eb9f1a---53316039617.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09fb030593---90868007994.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj78qm3rguv8mikkn25apm8v9c/gexukib.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752644cfe5c---kaxomoj.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6781f5158c80432b414ee417c679f93b/61071504236.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p16umkfte9dg4knr3kdllfva3/tuwoxigusarujog.pdf
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/xapibi.pdf
    • http://starlightcelebre.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/degelufugivaku.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=color+constancy+psychology+example
    • 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_off0000ebe1.bin
e18d86106131a89e9ed10329f14f2d97dab2a70d3a56298aee4a16f3a34c486c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE1 17124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011857.bin
0533698e70a2d4cf60c06c9711a2e5a930314941340b773d1895d0dc69c02d2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11857 10976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C4 16792 bytes