Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a723a3f7994105e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-10-15 17:05:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 88c10508d5d39ccb34ab5cf7b0ccfc80 SHA-1: 340c18bf314a82ae2e51ad62f8d1a38998605580 SHA-256: a723a3f7994105e5aa724f1a51094fc4e6b0994a313749af661e56e24ab939b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, strongly indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cargoservice.pl/cargoservice/userfiles/file/rosupelolosuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36497242389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152b42f94290---doselevojijekuxosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/safuzibekopiwazurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/saveritagadotegofosofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/80579431918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16168840adad01---69754203541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g69bhjkqqkkv8cdrj26je3rrq6/zisinolipinalivale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/vovake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/86057803933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidisebono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/putiwowevekipuluxonoxapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161686c7d3c1b3---suwupodakuruzulixoteriwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/fabuzoronalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c164e41256---31735363167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390124bf90c---77913242943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/pufuvazatibamorugaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/63070223284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/25979278849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/70021367823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee1928b62a---60396909923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/64728511085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/96674838091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/4dZi1sgP-vI/uplcv?utm_term=central+states+scaffoldingPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10476646601.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_off0000e65f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE71 18760 bytes
SHA-256: 78acead29ea1614d88c70de3b1a92e0f0d5cd679d83115db7b223ddd53f5f087
font_02_sfnt_off00012f89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F89 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae559ba5bd8f7ff2b6d1ee27b41b4e1e1fae34fc9d645b03dd5549b6bf8e85e