Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4a2b35ee968e86a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 17:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8235d942895abce51c9ce77d82f48786 SHA-1: 45bb8c737a38b52a00791829173459e4ac14c289 SHA-256: a4a2b35ee968e86a557e8e58d3f939e8031302b46e3413b4652b54eaab8b6bc8
164 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 embedded JavaScript and a large number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code or further redirect the user, likely to a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+saber+mi+n%C3%BAmero+de+tel%C3%A9fono+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161522e7c08d7b---lonuxolumenelizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6199d51256425f60d5f65bde5225918/2300730697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/40916837389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyramidplaster.com/file_media/file_image/file/samaginabazowisisotikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/torazujekafadalananarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/19460196462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c5b110e39---67996367084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43862009980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninufepivunita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitasekokibozazonimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xcheck.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/50656809720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/xafetigujebaxodaraletaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/36011565896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81tersj1dhnnhbvsdi6unjfhr7/wuzisakexorinonebokoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golutidujomixuxuredujaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ad751b0071---riwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/17946666391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/74635523509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cafa880c870851a79d0d154a705cfd2d/59193817377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/zijusukubijufukujigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/78132766406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbienco.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97031667534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ff232e8026---vojitefopuxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phu-komplex.pl/pliki/file/85609259816.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5A 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 6ccde1b766caed6cc6a99e88da4d27ff8773f0511bdd5cb88ca06dfed901edb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE672 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 18221fad848f22af3daf62c4ea9975a4f1b3237462a54a0a197823ca05a68eea