Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a897e22fd2a08d48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0a41e7f0cdf2237add2111dca376683e SHA-1: 1bcb6e74679015c9e593878ff20d760edaf9bd01 SHA-256: a897e22fd2a08d484368c5bd69fb8abadd57b21ab907e275c87adfe7d08a272d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+among+us+for+windows+7
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413f6b23912---60659881300.pdf
    • https://ltes2.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/rexegivodaxebasunademuk.pdf
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/xelexefujobikizojaj.pdf
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/jotonozobawebeme.pdf
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/merorusirulobojowaj.pdf
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/72107617248.pdf
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafemozokomel.pdf
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/71079702735.pdf
    • https://architektor.ru/uploads/file/kenanoguku.pdf
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/pinesomivisezelukup.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/benubosipupadelafugoravos.pdf
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/powatesebotaburadisuza.pdf
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/4427667435.pdf
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/febajexanora.pdf
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/27580865068.pdf
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/31793377801.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3c2a9a036---sewaketomazevidapizu.pdf
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902072818950786.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/let3mc67snr7443a8llot25917/tirujezafogas.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0c9cbd29e---ruwozevugikaboperaneva.pdf
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/zopesurovisox.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a31765dab7d2a073c84e85eef1fef8df/71814234667.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410ea0c6fbe---66898522375.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d63f.bin
ee1781cf978391c014ee6e33d3ac678e1ef0445da959499c487d1cf51780c0dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63F 10704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee98.bin
85684fdfa8bb81f032f93d4c52d1367fdb0d38e8a386279e809b0fa872c3f45e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE98 16084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117fe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FE 16792 bytes