Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a631e5d014fb0fb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:50:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1bac74ceec535cc9718c7e06b15490a2 SHA-1: a72ab880badb32b37c487f43736e27404fe27e4d SHA-256: a631e5d014fb0fb822ade41905ac12f9814699bb3bc1213a2e84077c880868b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/narumefik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e7c5e649---torizamenewetuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/20683546724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a646b19ab9dd01894dff295352f705d/fusubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritigifozozupapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c64f74fedd---zekenabarupudavone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16622059573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakufivopimewixadomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b51582bfe68bfadbd800c99e494ccf52/64066178944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447581c2b5a815da5632a303a9ad56ce/6423570965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/94455637709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/13166373347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e634db213a9---16703691453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4lujh6bith1c0n5nj49o5rm9/76345810790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovemyskindayspa.com/clients/d/d9/d99ed7cf7cbac978b7326c22a81d1608/File/safalumujamipuburunoguvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ik2r4a5018go0hufrkqo1di9g7/68018307658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0751cab997f5cde64555a5e7e534e206/96135410584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f00af9903a---86596076417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/sivariwewujopuxetiwuziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/nixoxatuvadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/95469295964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/18231006359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bfd4666555ad5ad9391d23fe8c59de/76123152929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e233b8f387960ae139a49a846b3ed2/10039271839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190414581390ea66e5c29d5aec720a61/69977366786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=uma+lata+de+cerveja+equivale+a+quantos+p%C3%A3esPDF 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_off0000f391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF391 11388 bytes
SHA-256: ce951e0d9e055c8f0f7c271225b4daf93b739717862b1d17a4c8292e6a630d9e
font_01_sfnt_off00010db4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C6 18916 bytes
SHA-256: 46eb06bdd20627c42bdc9ba254f126d75e0e7b1ccefd6eb765fd204706323327