Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4b09b23c21af4a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 10:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eeaab53bbc9a1828dc6f48f8995b6b8e SHA-1: 6f174653277a7c0fc1b7e89cffeac3ac0640de95 SHA-256: a4b09b23c21af4a012258c0881209b2cbb8279e01ea12257b1aea993185ec746
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The presence of numerous links, many with 'utm_term' parameters, indicates a coordinated effort to attract users searching for specific software, likely leading them to malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/jufevuvinemiwefozan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61f723ed86---pefawiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8163a53b0f---4188713610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/jijujugalije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b4f9e236b---zuwakamamixarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3e4s28v2dphjih89934vh42p3/ruvebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/9689290102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17571391030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa901b3897---65490165203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/25062058999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klkceh5nmdtgk7rc3bq3etsag2/84927432657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/25602648155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b355d02708e---13423951919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76901294557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f13308bee---belikaweterid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f99e55b0a---14481937710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610050baa6ba1---90339866653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/taparufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/mopedowowunabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcnn2im4p6huue9m3elkmdu250/xovige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740d21103a4---safomiwiwovikikajadabunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/gemevutevenukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f00c0c2b89---gotilikujidofajenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b3b346374---11422640701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=bus+simulator+ets2+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000cbb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB2 16924 bytes
SHA-256: cbbf4e1642c065924340b21329d998805cca57bd2ac9172e8e8056491568df00
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F1 10876 bytes
SHA-256: c3153c75673dbe121e2844c72091184954a690095836c0527435d350c194d2ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001113f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1