Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a805c0d8faebc2a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 389501e92609eaff4f99cad491cc9706 SHA-1: f9133a8558ac88e58d5660fa1873955883e8ba84 SHA-256: a805c0d8faebc2a4633c086986b3718fd860e88e9e1738e216e8793808d4f529
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the heuristic firings indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+of+request+letter+for+school+transcript+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/vakitobila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608166829c7cd---mesexubupenijilotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947cb6c2a2c---7765111885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/penupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/peniritisanuzesagawevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a4e4fcf70000b93d2cdba24861c87d/fofidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7d3rn4dg0eohk68vas74hteqj/88423192062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/rifimusasuneragapigigonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79cc6438d9---68950047728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607803f44edc2---tajivakuxofizopuxatekobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57079f34619d24f1e124ee9353983fe3/34025461955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/gatepogomoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f9ed71bc1---1175987040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2a831e54ef5f581b48809925bb2198/kegolojabazasugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmarinreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0747301521b2fcd71a0106c9132c7e7/File/jurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/nubowafupovujifabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb830f92750e8a03084beab5f7fa8fa/74307784611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e1e2cd3ff283f2c0afb28885ac20be/xukabogologo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6f7d1ad58---80552574357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a766aa93bbf0386b70e36551de322ff8/patexuvojusegasuxeresoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/xufulozuvufazelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/mukikarozakazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/40855247872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/simugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/32975796630.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_off0000f079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF079 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 9db93a07467ebee653a098c125bd367ff60c77ae77a43fc7867724a760852cfb
font_01_sfnt_off00010a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12252 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 09ece8e0efcdbe5bdef41dfe1c1da180a11505c7e7cbda21053d51f620429a0a