Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca0745a0b467557f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 66463003f3150fd1daef95d57872fc89 SHA-1: a1cc6dd8f5203fdb8b10e0d36901f80289c64aeb SHA-256: ca0745a0b467557fa6cc5c42ef618b5b30e24687ed70797e5fd96fa98b74697d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3b48677da---60470451747.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/49836714509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/71635820775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b01d42867---97064559148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62924fc8848c50991ddd01fafe289491/68925898743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b125111e102c25c35ead95ca7f2a08/81370407022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/1321866146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/77273277760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/83308620741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e23186401b8939ab579ec9ce7afae3fc/41031584732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/78486336324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f07d3a931---vimarimoxovelajojexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/jasuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e020220d28---viledosoxidegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/56957560751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7csnb75mva98o2mhpu3f1u5tvt/tepukatoxidutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff228e6382---temetikotukimuzivejepuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-17/20210717014333918386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/libotosukepuxosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/ruwigisubopipopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879e7bb3b53---repevedusejolunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badgerhillfarm.uk/delesojowomiwezulivopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/30836487073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c858fa82431---46212670633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=alimenta%C3%A7%C3%A3o+saudavel+dgs+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_off0000dcd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD7 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 793e84cfd94df1e1fbefba7683e503cf8db1219ce4cac48c5d4c6a7f68b12b04
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F5 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 51b22bf32d01669a541f8e8f249a949cd5d972047d0f84ca6c466aba9548fa25
font_02_sfnt_off000126f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1