Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a509fb423f12e2dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 06:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 185cfb31928508d88a9eb7ba861b5540 SHA-1: ace088197abace17dd4fecbbe81290c2fa9140b1 SHA-256: a509fb423f12e2dc11a9d19d132b19fe05386fbfafa9727755db416edc627fc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a malicious intent to host and distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+biblia+del+vendedor+alex+dey+pdf+descargar PDF link annotation
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c823a328---61102865315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0ad1f23944---vagizolakirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210715205033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/sapedilavisevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/vazufamogurun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaf52c829c---28344263517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4ndk78chn4v7hlf8m2nk9bnpa/xapopalafuvawapumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088943e79d8e---19056319354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/5106415202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/67440432416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/81666679293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zuxadipaletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/tabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/37121333404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf0715b7d7124a5f7a33cd6b5de25c40/42055983179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b813dde0f---69043026755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/81181523105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/rupoxirumiturugiwatinukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/puduvenukuvazexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgj6qko9rjnnrkphr8pdptv204/79000400114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a010badfb05c00216329c7807bc9066/jogalepelujodavevoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/lutagatimosewuvapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/kujujubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/jasiboxawixumoreraxajosag.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_off0001031b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031B 11076 bytes
SHA-256: e1e84479c8f47bebdc9b479f9b169643dcb45f213b4f80a7d08daaddbbbcb31a
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA1 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 5653436f57c6282180d5e31422bc24620ef0c45df7516ecea31e2cb46b8f7a29
font_02_sfnt_off00014bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1