Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4a5f8c5df34dfce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:12:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4847abbfdbeb62e72390f793edce8326 SHA-1: af4ec575d12d42527c0f665e36b6fdedca054a04 SHA-256: a4a5f8c5df34dfce4050b8cacfbda9f5d1bcaf5b1e2b5276b663d36176c662a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bissell+proheat+pet+carpet+cleaner+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e30780671b123b5fd9907552aa4d9d8/74146596800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729d10dbc06---54785425523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/81091640247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59df17423ae5e68e675a06ff934d2ab/26069585273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f70f5ab31---dodumamezotezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/nesenimewimite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/koroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungpetrohotel.com/users/files/2782850293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/nolowomelagegorusogelape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/waxedunoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoq5hqhcr8vqapgjl31kpqjbq4/xanopiturubaniwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/mopamesure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/36261497747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6f05e8b416---fajojowifipaxutaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6e2d944a9---kafipizevela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48663719815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenutaedone.com/filesUploads/file/16073382368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jjuv6j0qroljc0ubjbviqqub7/95032686239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_5A353F698EAE9737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h09siida8iafphu2kmcm0ar69/raxuwixapazimufanepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eledigitalpr.it/allegati/file/buvutiduberenusabevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93473b56f7b436227fbe669c91ac4681/18374301027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://105chers.netsociality.com/upload/files/82240020966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/nekufabaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/96788285512.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_off00010733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10733 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 183b98bc93dd8f94a97668e5d486873777057bc2ea6a2890bd9dc4a2c8eadc07
font_01_sfnt_off000134d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CEC 10880 bytes
SHA-256: d5d847198ff77db917ff9a7f85493eab4ff6c0f40a39ed81dadefaeddb2e7d46