Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a837bf952d4308e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ebe78bb9c770cb2557d1b2d9fe06c91b SHA-1: 88c77a7d8c890d318ddbe0b5ff83fca73d4a9fba SHA-256: a837bf952d4308e61d1b24f6f2e335f0e3c22635ecb56646854784f17b1b528f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to redirect users to phishing pages. The PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting.

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idmji+coros+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2ad78bebc---30994269835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1212c8f5e---dugogefowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/ditenemujarimesivuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a316c1ddb31---munixifenipivelanago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a45a1bbe5---56665037374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-06-06/images/files/nafuwipufaxinelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncqsf7nqfuac21887c0v4g58m9/mejosogovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/34144723076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/08/file/1629964902551429512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/78265856862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/buboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/zeropowomexabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvunmm030p9h23u4vv990bp07a/50297919658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f5lprsr6cf24m7cqi7meluri8/69579645746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se1drccinikkppfpcesfibeen7/34710465976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/kajipigugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a67c68c35---37265424032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/pufifodifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/87078667092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/zepilabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d55b818e6---93564712589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0adf2e51da---65364946757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61718142338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/52112174180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpitalstrzelin.pl/userfiles/files/667790023.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_off0000b8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8D6 16724 bytes
SHA-256: bb44f4916fbdd19fcd14092fc74ab22632f7d7cf3a68be47eb699c11e8f85b21
font_01_sfnt_off0000e435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4C 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 245287fa14857949b00b11ec6b2171d96bfb413282d2e417cc64271e397dc93e