Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a794a216f30f2783…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 00:41:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c6a42585e38f8c41fa096785f4be7297 SHA-1: 58820b3aaf83f3c1c6e96238e9c3d077d9a57aff SHA-256: a794a216f30f278323c4dcfc2f4df109494b4e74fc3ff3a690b2a9dc2019ff0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to trick the user into downloading further malicious content or phishing for credentials. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the links suggest a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=second+class+first+aid+requirements+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4007cad32---sezegagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa17097f30---nikejavawukibeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/setitenebizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/beseramotajekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a303cfe193140cd96258741a459f10e/tipuwupenivate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a45768d16---10876471598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug9del0ghqklhc7t92lqk1dij9/retizebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1624347126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7cf80be66---kilufalefamebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/josutegigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cf1cecf7e---guvike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada4357e95e9ac9b681b2e3ac3a04651/26996858764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7846ef060---tevojejetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c845d2ecf298180baf9ce6333ba9d96/sesomamoduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839dc5428c3---20462427774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/54097829145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13075e5e5f---kanavotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85303e5319---85789445415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/rebugopanuxaxilowujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE945 5488 bytes
SHA-256: e58470e02002650b0ae4f19db91250b89188b41ea6065817aaaaa2312c5f2d5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE7 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 53eaa630fe01ee44ef7502f2887a5901b730e7fd1d9267ebd2b4fd787d00a1be