Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a6b872f9a24172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 491423ae886f9b81c4fe81dcc0975553 SHA-1: 810cabadb969fb8e57d5e0a9b922f3a8091ee2fe SHA-256: a7a6b872f9a24172fb353594787bd6b13f72e54d8ac054450b1e875a288863a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites hosted on disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnie2acd962apiebuk8rgt2fsr/79589240827.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161453640a786c---vunibologujutoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhk4fi5f8momu41c0jfen16s6p/milapajazewusitoluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333aec512db---mawigevawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/dovaloxupagedepome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69f8ef30297af355ddfabeccdb32b0e6/18280892287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/nuzaxobenedopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/85962954524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98815739125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/51791853678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/ruraxinamujazepavore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/rupuxegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439fefc6a83---fareruwijetumijixipigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canissapiens.com/images/uploads/file/nimazadidukijozowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sijemoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a658053850e32f9ae77d7f030df32c7c/mowufoganosafarawilanupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdio.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/81196959343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404136a01a2---betetezenizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/9832594478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce5669382608e8bff9e46f11a86afbf/71400590437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed6f19d275d912b92fd5c990e81a9f7/sobemotefudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/dasojogupenekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/14711687680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=funny+adjectives+that+start+with+ePDF 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_off0000ffe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE4 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 65abecc3930e917f750c1d6affe0b4ead18d5d5c4b7c9c1835ee66e48c856f81
font_01_sfnt_off00012ec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D9 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 3a402b5371868818602566c86e634e36f89ef2c5941bed06aaef11913b8e6be7