Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a695abaa762501eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 04:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ae999aee64c58a733aa261f73aaf4b47 SHA-1: 2f4fb35625a70d370329e9b1872eb2b47d9ec03a SHA-256: a695abaa762501eba6f23961e4ccba71f52f28f2d0b1793c25f991d09008e041
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a specific URL with a 'utm_term' parameter related to software downloads indicates a lure to trick users into visiting potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=internet+explorer+11+free+download+for+windows+8.1+64+bit+filehippo
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ge2sjr5qtmdaos3ril7lg75smg/jewuw.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094858f581fe---wosarenilawamapomokewij.pdf
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/19218618074.pdf
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/53917296170.pdf
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/21587828970.pdf
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/56245823594.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbaf20fbf0---vidijizepaxog.pdf
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/nosakedowira.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d13728e74---rokokoxetelavoxi.pdf
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18994849811.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ad313abf0---2335805885.pdf
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/zagipukataxaz.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p04b7chnnlk0m96qe1cp10hn0/71437573534.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694ccf1c06f9941205a473f647621edb/vixovobasasevizaz.pdf
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/38805453803.pdf
    • http://aqcons.vn/upload/files/40365389056.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778c0734400---99828520244.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856b8f8483f---babazizimepabusu.pdf
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/bexagemusijeda.pdf
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/14654808384.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53335b1f5f47dcb48028ad61d2bf302/fatovexegejafix.pdf
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/lomenirodupopevufisomik.pdf
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/fosumipiwutavupuxafidiru.pdf
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/78123810370.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_off0000e834.bin
c961035aa41fa9ce5d4176d7f475d0994c56c8d4ff378772794bdf597c553a51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE834 11448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001031c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b2e.bin
225162c21f976a1a6de88c3875a1ff177c172dfbda4715177e3c3ce62d3ec2d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2E 17440 bytes