Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a599a7401fb3c845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:18:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 71600f2fa7bb45fe13e59740c8e0cabe SHA-1: abb844e8f468e0848e133e04bedc4fa0608675ee SHA-256: a599a7401fb3c845c30e034cb56df9fce52131fc71bcca2c718fff87e394d75d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or exploit kits, aligning with the characteristics of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a318a19f23505d4edf0a26af482f600/63926742591.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085248c40194---lukigefakemuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43215055415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607262847f13f---70637138443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4153351642aacc5a7de9af07efbe23e/digavozulivamisowodezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72880369573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87dd56ff37d134d46d641f285d8627ad/murobidasigajowoxomulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22571517821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/leminabaxibegujaremamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f9c8f2399664faf13103ff1a579610/titewamoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/panabasiduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67458343cacf8b60754d3f8f5e1a98c6/63191642195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a0145a7000---pagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com//upload/userfiles/files/pijuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9649060000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_3A622671E373C96C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufcav61d8rggebqj2cbn1ekpmg/fapedoxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d187b016407---40993640144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/55559740856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33949de6be047e790b78aa6ec48ea3ba/bibugovopefiketivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/82085427061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/gozumoxiwebowipagopoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/pusadinujawesotabuvasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/jedovepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mqskin.com/luutru/files/besew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=freemasonry+of+ancient+egypt+pdfPDF 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_off0000c539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC539 16140 bytes
SHA-256: ca39d5e64f42359e0d7edaba346ae2275cc15d3456944262b305745c14b2f213
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001069c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069C 11008 bytes
SHA-256: a057346daccd66bfb5adb0e6c6dbff0b617c241bb82bf96220093f9341550db1