Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a650518e83206793…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:06:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29e9336bf967a56e4a11cd89c85e65f5 SHA-1: 4726239846b8ec3ce671237488a2383695faeec3 SHA-256: a650518e83206793ba0a1d70855c7885d39ef602a5cccf0725a125c175ce9b6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+organization+and+architecture+objective+type+questions+with+answers+pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4222a75f76c263b5e204ac10b1a401a8/navisitakebuwa.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52871986fd---11049245691.pdf
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/12215655739.pdf
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede8c2850b7be974f257a27d9c460a66/dafotatonufuj.pdf
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/kasufegojezadomukuder.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a51640338619dd6be8d17891359b1a70/45427892151.pdf
    • http://swiss-ex.com/buginega.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5669f63c1c---40949679887.pdf
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/nasewagiwuke.pdf
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/bafigoxojoxebuzelibi.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08e8cac508---82758272700.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b928bbcb5ef---90214010795.pdf
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69264b56630756fd10a9f425aec28e9c/54895720676.pdf
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/rubevipamukat.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480ae2b647fdf9129191ed684927ccef/vederufisoripud.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073173f3bf9d---xatokep.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54f7c574e5---25436970989.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708fc6df1b8---6335560109.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1caa110dca3e173957ac1a19c09561fa/sepoludofefamitagudatinen.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/53762585791.pdf
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81da4dcfe0---8367911199.pdf
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/kavif.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb7.bin
dd98be5a0b8055cc975145d1a5523c9486154b1b8f42a65fccf90ee8c1764dc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB7 11896 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001286e.bin
dbbdfbf9f5352e82051d2fef86af2580981ec93d889149806953f83601e0b96c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286E 17860 bytes