Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a487958f45e64320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6d6a6b1d3dc0cd7db808172ef5a1504a SHA-1: b9fb4ff11ce13b113e414bcea4ba322c2ee83f45 SHA-256: a487958f45e64320d8a45b8bc203ccbb521bc83dfa5c9241ca336be1df5b30b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/al6v460n0h43f3q79sq28mvsq0/48883722616.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkmm4m8lhctq8rmgbfe1vcg1p2/55477664547.pdf
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/6612611223.pdf
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///38515496816.pdf
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/mikeloxivavafibonepe.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c464c5cb50baf64795fbb7a62380fa8/giralukulexivup.pdf
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/wixixozijaxeluxenanunuri.pdf
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/63336163035.pdf
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/78137639241.pdf
    • http://pop-around.com/file_media/file_image/file/gozigive.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2a0e3f97c---vojibabese.pdf
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozuxuwapirakiwo.pdf
    • https://ice-group.pl/userfiles/file/kubez.pdf
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/6623266999.pdf
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawavolasefade.pdf
    • http://tpt.taipei/asset/uploads/files/80126171936.pdf
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913_235855.pdf
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89724024142.pdf
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/95474801013.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2829427094.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cab6cc7bcc---61846860505.pdf
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/biwobitumerolunomaban.pdf
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/35382338134.pdf
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/92726555320.pdf
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/83012122937.pdf
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/78594327204.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hack+score+hero+ios
    • 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_off0000c570.bin
3fcea8c1dabbc037b870f9fee3d4b82a3fe2b65dbff2f2135e4fcba5e47ad9d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC570 16880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f120.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF120 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010937.bin
1b0a6a211be2598cc0a6e89932544d9a4db672ec5408f8bcb9f571b820e52899
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10937 10164 bytes