Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90731dd754dddc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4e4ca7277c6e78d60d186eb041390783 SHA-1: b7fc25c18313d9863211f294571a08d1ad6f40d9 SHA-256: a90731dd754dddc52b3bca22437ec2dc721326c01f07c88561d73ced9cf9f83f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host further PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc30f5337a---95613834251.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d6c900e27---52610469554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f716989b05d310f4892831b78382224c/69125290262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67d9ea7fddeeff66728eb78404ba2ffd/31135258249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785272148c---78314294569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/zetogafone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/wozubataxali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/doxixisanilowojenadakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725c4ec017e---99318000522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf1bc6759b4582b7804454622261f4f/19190154928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcrhk72vqe3b68ue4g3jevjm63/zojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da5eace4f9040e2fd84b4bd88b02721/5276374454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e8a5c5e08---siwokifusorigunegawaboxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779d317cc33---gopagivofukudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/46560950348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/78608497974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/paxenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/negozitazenebipugulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/9988034094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/85598514651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9e2601204011051846641425ea8262/wobomidufupuxufamirujabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/65454316950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/2845500567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cooking+diary+all+restaurantsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD98 29136 bytes
SHA-256: 97a3e41d35ae04412541d9725499703ae6e4f497329b395494d59263a2dbee64
font_01_sfnt_off000138e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E3 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 21fa13457579bffd4d5b6cfeaa4ac0ef03e68542f1b44e7028ef61c3de1cc3d8
font_02_sfnt_off000152bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152BB 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 90ee155ab748c34c50512d7c86572c31f2910fb7017abbdf47625396d20050d1
font_03_sfnt_off00016b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1