Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a83aa4b02ec1a6cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 10:13:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f5b1dfe271210249757cef90e0cf768d SHA-1: 16f932958d452a867090959b225cd0bdcb4d8dee SHA-256: a83aa4b02ec1a6cbd3f2787efe07879e18c9feefa26ed6005d340a3ea79e739e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. These sites likely host further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to exploit users.

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 http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/72039727922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608284d03c868---61842688585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7112c24b9---10027684001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be73e70ec2ea66821bd6dc91416a8da1/86513780709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7b8cf0dced---45033885956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a32a4c765---kilera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb36b3eb010d07ee11aa3224cd4d5ae3/vimebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgek8fvcdk9778rpvjooudppv1/mukelonodikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832af33d954---tebuvoxopomogatugedinake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/furotiviximotirajumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/exogijajatakefivofovete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/21074096019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7c36e0ef7---mexigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779721c665e---bipaxixezorufidonojoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obnc3nan3qu7itr7vea472q323/bubomubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609263678a95d---maxoruxufifidagewikoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c53db0ba69c116150b72b274ac74654f/71485068006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/pojazekavisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/rokawuwonaregamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b7f1a670d---gubetesiguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/78673158999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3q7dt1cimk1jg70voefad0jd3/zamitanakuwuwosodonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/gutezivomuxefivilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60380862411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=acknowledgement+example+for+individual+assignmentPDF 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_off0000f9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CE 17264 bytes
SHA-256: a27b0d146ce58c2e2bcc0ece2bf3d04e7243cfb2573017420556344f505f4248
font_01_sfnt_off00012709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12709 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F20 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 3617d8e14e591fcbc45d7300e513ec35fd1d62eba7486bf92574dc309de84cbb