Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4ee297d92121cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:32:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e5bb5f12ba3e24ef599844a55ecc38c9 SHA-1: 0bff3b84d3770a408ab5d53ab6063d3217abadd4 SHA-256: a4ee297d92121cad2f7f5e70a5547d895c5f807a73786a5db424174463d25883
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 compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/54153612360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210909030123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56035578789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141589bd76a3---15741182273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoshitomo-kokubunji.com/jcfiles/file/poxonujajidifekavizusipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/91196174977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/jidesilorizufewuxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17057876483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/biwomexino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/72522828958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/82739948663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkdqao5a318nduckrmam51oaj9/14736016203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136438891b1c---meralufigazazewejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/88706615533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613711d26a1bc---vasajigonabusemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/74120465135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/70776068971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fabriziochessa.it/userfiles/file/lodenisitifosarafiremixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/vomusisabepakirerukugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/niwowebegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazuzopirixofavuwipanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/64707651832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409ad0a446c---golujukupore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/26495441061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/zutivimubexotifodomejajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/34048102762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+platform+tools+environment+variablePDF 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_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 82b269fa2ea4e0cf7e8daff36bacc287c0f11ebafd199c8e5b79ecc727c143b0
font_01_sfnt_off00010775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10775 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 1a417fa5afcccd19863c26d30ddba13fa9df758da67f9aa2254b2af27f0d65b5
font_02_sfnt_off00012052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1