Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a770b5ab28e9ecd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 374c475fe194d02a8954d6d8460fa99d SHA-1: a6086f643005950a074b86f6acd88ada8e858e68 SHA-256: a770b5ab28e9ecd05cbdf95eeb11f9b14ff7a78ab31db6d498c0e866591afbcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the document acts as a link farm, directing users to download other PDF files from compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links to potentially malicious content suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d92098d490---26480443157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfe82dfff70f649d8802dd549d8ae95/jabisakivolulebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cb67d6d74---81284067191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842bf1a65ef---16452182733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8bd90898---moxubiluruvuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091004fec975---bikofoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782fb14c156---xuworipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d755183dcbdce1a28884483a31bac7c1/59516259377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ah9hlv447s2c4che4lst1i38/91288259961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf2d6a1746---19506971346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8c5d956f9---98754191940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/fejakewepukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b1a35b16---namedunomukuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1621234433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a12241bd1---zivawudere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b524ebaa74---gunegakulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38deec8608---32888858234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/53734511677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/715r10f9jj0o08mp2nn28phg10/38836680470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/11442419429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/zijagumenetewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d54beb788b1---wunoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54648855752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=new+all+american+episodePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eea60e9d99---bepigififipudebawixigogo.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_off0000f4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B8 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 9b77f0da904a5fdc6e40c0ef81fc4d36b65b24b302881f1d00096942cc53d8c5
font_01_sfnt_off0001216e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216E 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e2fe4e3021a3f45603bb06c56d41551b627da59fa5947193e7c7faa62b468454
font_02_sfnt_off000139be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1