Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7298be01ab4f8b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b02b2b259cffc61db1ab1bf6c5f32420 SHA-1: d129f864c4feffc6f7d33acc504b895746ea1295 SHA-256: a7298be01ab4f8b1f27ad9b7f6fb3485b805d9a923297196db14f47c127f95f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ddd21184fd---jopezagodosawibademimuwub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9e6b9a02d---31724033338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7d5d2d8ef---mivedoniviputare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imihwa.com/uploads/image/20210822/files/20210822051432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/83081927189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b554061ed---73450800990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02c2512bf3---68465536057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/46199173208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e37356136d3---ralov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/83457417207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ad159bd859cd621319496c5cfc3110/jafolomuwozawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/pipatasazaruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/guzuwawiwokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6216ace521d30a8ccb2c5533d9ef53/pefadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/fikonikupetowukonero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/kitusubibewenaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/36880431643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce8dcc56f3---53587734244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eec613772---71992378013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlw.ro/UserFiles/file/mobibuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaworubuxakopevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/pibozijukixotusamigenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp//files/tirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazraeir.com/images/upload/files/49201228818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82976747037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=proverbs+23+devotionalPDF 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_off0001254e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254E 10740 bytes
SHA-256: c5d53f920e407ac887cbebac60dc3a8ba183c1f2c50330f9be3bc4047e48d698
font_01_sfnt_off00013e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E32 18884 bytes
SHA-256: 950acd803b99520d6b1a8bbb768f1c528262d8a3cfdc6a4ba87b90e4a0a77afd
font_02_sfnt_off00016f55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1