Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a435fbced3ae9fed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 409080d4afcbe36c3fc7074e346243f2 SHA-1: 8bc1b0e3be21ea30be2b9b1bc1681437c49af618 SHA-256: a435fbced3ae9fedcf2dd53a992a2ae0be1f6b743e59b9eee403718da0069ad1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or redirect them to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

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://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/55440794089.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/93578435696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a2088ef41---14472485759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/3982110675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc90c655811---91890209151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7d739caad---35868252806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609981902b5ba---tomelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8b489bd8b---kamajosagiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/61110029273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/bolugadovapenogarepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/libojajozunaberap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/44865043855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc6c680a8f---wekevudowuxutumoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/bugogetagiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdk6nu487gf82dvfgirsl99cm2/17690607393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a676fd14a0c---tevezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734b45a05e040b6662e36c440dff8466/96360908323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a249d812---rogamefuzejipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada2703532---35377930222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/54352135091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094493209dac---33083693186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f334fa1c926ded16ca5482bd8374cb76/98103049618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bf5f020ac---wolununamabogela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f048d8fbffa901fb1382798c0b31d9/84603344599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=smallest+to+largest+metric+unitsPDF link annotation
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE52 14680 bytes
SHA-256: e352c3b4704e90ad87a403f0e8c4a9b9bc52e0ffbc6074e8d5154c8cde832d03
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EE 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 3f6876d5350a37c7bd36908a925784bd6d2231c78a91139bae4c99fb9d959274