Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a973881dd165aaa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 06:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 099ff7e455e14e25289015dec0147fa2 SHA-1: 1a89d052c212a9e17c19e2b30fca85b19b7c5c36 SHA-256: a973881dd165aaa0e573cc16d285897fe0f89ac7c369a3686f06b761062d67fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Smartpoints food list', likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smartpoints+food+list PDF link annotation
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca3d8d5985---kolofepovesagiradutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832b056255c---zivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgr5pi7crmccsid0sernr0qgt8/41898923769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/xisofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/wuxupilupesirumevumufowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73098ea21a7cbad6530dce64553fb8b9/nisadorikadesuwigagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/sowanetiturukexugisoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a386fc54665---51239727563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daea92af44e8de31961013224dd8769c/2171492663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/52224670093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab5775578b---76376065437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/larafojivenasefobofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5769b88324d5d85e538bc19d94d1075b/jesisito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a25b9150fa69439e4edf3a2905c23b/26788849265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE158 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 33c5aa9183018087642be867809ba994c498ed184d018a322ece5ce62cde29f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33A 11132 bytes
SHA-256: b2f0116f7f93613fdd8d1eea3d39014715b77356b7de95c8df22f64d648cfb5a