Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca06a721fc20f9c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:35:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e4a1c21d5bd8c2dcca56c3920312ec42 SHA-1: 202c06a58f4dccda23b6c91f7fb75a519678978e SHA-256: ca06a721fc20f9c2f8aeed83fb153fd61ffce15785f61dbfd1ddadc05f30b91c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, with the latter flagging it as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidtrim+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/75368634260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/remarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c9mng5hrqald7ut1veb7ktoh/20822099023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/81736910142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/dajuzatajudetokodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f2da10a74---mabogozusofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/61195324578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/tudoduwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477e3dae3d2---fudakebidiruvuzesumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/titivojogiziratawatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65032217738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/11253173222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craft-personal.de/userfiles/file/26627143708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://videoeffect.ir/data/file/74502083478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/18457507256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/87676992322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613735294bfc3---58579445951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowuzirutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/wiwozudubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48793197604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/xikerexajobimusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/tinepaxexitesejonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siblom.ru/files/upload/file/13487380757.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC479 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC90 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 716ef1ccf086664ee6ea296bd190060674b3c60f10832e6b6ba4f1d915441dab
font_02_sfnt_off0000f31f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31F 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 0f338d5af7c4ab2b21e849392033b702989828dda53f2f12ab3666be0fbae28b