Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0aca6bd725f2828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 16:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 059e15aa206a46078b2f5fe6faee27d5 SHA-1: f4d818232ad069b92052bd9edd06bfe8bdd49e5d SHA-256: b0aca6bd725f2828caeac389139d1c017d4b3023407b3ef22501737bf83ee573
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ambalatender.com/upload/files/vovogujojusufanegimiwuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/85504319764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/25494895263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/vevujugufedumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f4c7203bc---15511650854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/jarolufuvegawowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/40552214661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/3732980883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efce06aabc027908ff03ead1df914d30/89536842050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/77952435886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/10727116469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/78370272665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimore.vn/webroot/img/files/sisiraworuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/xilewatape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxsasa.org/images_fck/file/1630516075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/29411893449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/regezuwidunubulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/nufufiwetewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eeoodr9mmpacc98fndlgbqs58/96980760766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/47106481946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328b7bea35b---mibizadumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=english+grammar+textbook+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_off0000d5ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5ED 11260 bytes
SHA-256: f3ee5693956a3a18f4805a05b9b8b83a7d9556926694e9afb27803da42b15e64
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB1 17812 bytes
SHA-256: f33cbf43c9095cd2047dd39bcc28a30eacffa837caff235e3946c472454668b6
font_02_sfnt_off00011d99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1