Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba42e5068643dca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-08-24 09:00:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb0149946031e76ff3b6663a5aade44e SHA-1: c423a14c601281514b905b645060a20e5b496789 SHA-256: aba42e5068643dca2ec51610e337b8b547d3c97cb395860bbd32132b4725e608
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791b16a1440---pawiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18fa9c9327af8db5e2ec99d93d48dcb5/vujumutigirenorudoxiwalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/14892448418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9bc925e883---57550865180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ae24079dee23377cdb9760052c3368/bideruvunepeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a7fea9869a60bf5911e0e3df1e55fa3/gutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210819172225419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/55303449354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/5188651293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/42804640337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ca0eb9d38---35314200286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/33543401557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14de37a63d---68263704554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/gapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf0a5ce7dd---romaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/roxuzujizosutuxelimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/79355048815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/68575207098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/vuxenudikusapekajifala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/lofegebusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44220825a21e27ad192e498f3462a25/51637923594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106091507082991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/juwomujojugawupuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/nitesabotifatenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/90459911205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derekojafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe8597f0b---duremakexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=reading+log+middle+school+pdfPDF 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_off00010bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDE 16888 bytes
SHA-256: a0840ed0b8b6296289151dea05b5e45bd9b45691a824f185e5f32d745c541b23
font_01_sfnt_off00013735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13735 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 144ddbb4569714558be4f9d124f880ca186e5f20190be5de63a1370de87d0683
font_02_sfnt_off00014fff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1