Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a73a88df93f788c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 03:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d4e7558fad5f0ae6ec67a7503ed1b63 SHA-1: 29320bedfa8af40bcbefa407c668c56cf2b94d71 SHA-256: a73a88df93f788c569a077a893e15679f8d8f05f613084a07cf186d9d3c4ef2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of many distinct hosts suggest this is a link farm. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd53b63313---70019759461.pdf
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/jusadabiforixavofanimomej.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b327f31b2ff---xibowusaxiva.pdf
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/sijolozebigulizozuletoxow.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7284f0ff8---12333984458.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c256e47608c75c6a31452961776ade69/nidizamo.pdf
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/68459904326.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26d4092ed12da06a454762205d7ade2b/zigumuv.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0bf3c4d5ef---31180359179.pdf
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f32fa5bd96e83f1fdb731d1068429c3/64934877168.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/fexakomekibavezifa.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805e5254d3f---25211135480.pdf
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/95987443605.pdf
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwusalabekelibibuv.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08514c6d1274f3a66c18381886f0b2ea/98580357446.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/574b40e81acc32ddff9aef609f777f17/29558082404.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tc54aohopnl7ddoiq7vhtbchh/rawevapuleg.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7210a1d4f2b58588d6dd63cca88c8f6/junijaraxurikojedudede.pdf
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/xaxadonegoxomigoxiru.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087072d28053---62426736289.pdf
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/zurobojakepuronovodixaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=blood+money+bollywood+full+movie+download+mp4
    • 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_off0000d241.bin
bcaaac38a067d95e900bbfab220f161b1a4e2da8020e9467f4886739ce9d00af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD241 18344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010166.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10166 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001197d.bin
c17763de1b09a33726ea40855760e9d645fd2b985cc091cc72e0511b10ca8de4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197D 10928 bytes