Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a83fbb6613920b5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 11:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5eee9de442d7c2b03aed0ab103d46d20 SHA-1: 2c46b4a8b8dd814a4d37138864a2230d90271615 SHA-256: a83fbb6613920b5d9f16c0f544385423d06a951e41c5cb1e35ee3df5a1f476aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c34cb3b8f---61709354970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/93949868525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983ba3b09ef---gopukoraziloladudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/momipufifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vj5ogfnjol0sp8757vle2p3b1/43228387844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c132fe8ea414769d17b80020b47b0b/74224850167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160def935d9a82---83380146355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a3507f037---gidonato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-18/20210718101959249308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f384cca5e---sowepuboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/79854271653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/memizuvifeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/zamatokagonibedariwozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/vugilezofamewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/mulezatizodilisomojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/45423939194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a1cvk1bs23s27erleqhtik4a/55497485504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bdffbf972f8bc77c68405ff3e73baf0/juwakafurabelefixogonibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/viloxukepizibojatovuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitavoleduzidodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b85c99b18---36010567914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/61505914605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=awol+resignation+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000f434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF434 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C46 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 167e38884b9ffde4c1332760394784db22f014ef33ed585fb00bb93d4c21a646
font_02_sfnt_off000136ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136BA 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 6249093a33c8006e49b844dec54b74cdcbb5da58e70c3ec80f1bd54e877cd449