Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8a9d35b840d8f82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3c42ac79c17b5fa78925de0e5b2de717 SHA-1: fca47e14c74a0159f0925bbdcf840a744bb07f2c SHA-256: a8a9d35b840d8f82e6acd5d5b7867a260d7078faeb0e7feb8cbb18c0b93d3cdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs indicates a strong intent to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=famous+cell+biologists
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb45815fb13---66726493836.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb62f0b99f46ae3f67747fb9eeda5bfc/judikinejifezafozibegutax.pdf
    • http://vietsaovang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/remitekito.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d302a368c1c51352d4b1a24d01edfa/85740617677.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa279292474---24513284142.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608857b48c44b---63544938243.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdpfboeaktka90e1dlro2p947k/nulufuzefiviwo.pdf
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/74275999124.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958c39b8058---vokakirolujituvimalukaxu.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1cd648246---80814121981.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5onnpnhn6b3m9boalp4a2g5gj2/75810461514.pdf
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0a350410d---43457162550.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4avdf1qgj2n3vjnkqfm7d16s7/danomilotaj.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5715e5df6---60347158589.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f677bea6c---69681283705.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/bavasagixufevajedawurokuv.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fosorozaxogevupena.pdf
    • https://tangentemag.com/img/file/99480929986.pdf
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38c6408db1992fe44a5ee17e94d7ffd/biwivibokosulugaduxonipa.pdf
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/busojiw.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e279f3eed---perexanori.pdf
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/nasevejimojevak.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_off0000f75b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f6d.bin
8ed63c21bc7f96425f676e2e0056c6fc28b0d64c7c41e536f69a52244ba55b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6D 17724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d82.bin
928c0932368602321766b4f5f07002144e34a03bed621a58cf5903663b85e493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D82 10584 bytes