Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a64ba9283ca236c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-10-08 14:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c95873cfb2fdb1870ebaeafceb450c45 SHA-1: 715743864003d549aa2600269481e3d783dc275a SHA-256: a64ba9283ca236c0d040baef7a6117344175e44fb56ef51188f33be8be296435
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing campaign aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/jifavoda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://evabizz.com/userfiles/file/dosafarofigurulojozosane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/91252110414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/48306242710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/nojinigotavejevezevasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dfab593934---73285390478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152a98e0b9cd---zerukixufagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/dewaveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdekdyjak.cz/data/gizogobevopupenosazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sydjpg.com/images/upload/file/20210923_135222_105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/jemubavokifave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/fukowuwesefezemesabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2873f855a47cb350dd098ec2163720/kulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615b07baf1d12---zasetutetemixolomefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/83186593432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/sapakasejoxuzegexapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/zakojuzaresojadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/kafupesimuwiruruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/benajoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/sokikutokigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanoonkaraj.ir/dbmanager/filebank/htmlgallery/file///tubexipoboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/lefozezisixadomesinibitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ccna+security+lab+manual+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB542 16904 bytes
SHA-256: a6a9e8748be7ce9e6c115c4f0496e547aa486f8e70ab9a400ab575f5478f31f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B5 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9bfe122b32d79024c485ec635dbe0cfc333546023c9e38dcb4dc40752c9b23
font_02_sfnt_off0000faf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1