Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a652e0f254bff707…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a80e77366f423892e7bb95cf7d04ac8e SHA-1: 3caff20ddd67986d3bd7007678ff1bdaa93d6e4a SHA-256: a652e0f254bff7079b7998d3a1d0d6700e52e543b60090fb1392a537736e5494
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document's purpose is to act as a link farm, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a redirection mechanism to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+day+of+school+worksheets+first+grade PDF link annotation
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/56798442158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b7d7d75625aaf45b9623b631f45ae6f/91801823641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/vuret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/65345480986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081241196e02---jirazokodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c37dc77395fb98cb0abedafe291177/18009333946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/derukupuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd385dd169b---10230512487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb7ac992c7eab80a1526bf941cd53e2/katakatojenutigovefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/dulozunebatabogoduxurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20170933d3027e10cbdfcf7b3de2cab5/89831349130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/jeresozenenepinekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/zidugudotuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7290d2eb1---9422597786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/vosasulivilumuxutaluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114796b9fbfa---riditukesudujagobefufiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611124170c1fb---luguxixunexefadeliwopugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santehnika34.ru/images/file/29652563442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/potokorarufumoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14896f6606778150ba0b73bafa6871c/91418514964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaomattroi.com/uploads/news_file/wisifalagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/17858827539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/78955254194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dogumobefixufidopatitamu.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_off0000ba3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA3A 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d5732dae25e02e1213ac8460617949cc3a55787b0743fb35f52cd6c06c09271d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD388 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 7f2dcb480c8b61e5f2f7646dfb24a6dbe744bec63b7724dcda7c2f55d8b5791d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1