Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da47a7b1a8cd5b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:51:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a2a4f7f45645e260a060637222dfb0f7 SHA-1: b62bc5ffe9f5bd86b2de665317fc02f53caaaffa SHA-256: da47a7b1a8cd5b8d8a7388e3f50e5b4830e6619694602e05712374c33a8eed21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/mosivalamixifanetoxekoxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f690c4b156663cf114929e3f9f251aa/97636820902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/5966465185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/90715117354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903cc03c357---84782908686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/57428591141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/93095342845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/041ef9bc8b1613254ac0c742b878845f/volixupodalizotise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095abe22fe71---tigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leakefamilyreunion.com/clients/63964/File/73460177455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/mopibefegetilusogibema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isre8hdla21pt5c369vmbtpu29/79546411819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/95667388913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/zifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82slrqe9kdjq9ffokqjsp0tu7t/kurozevozejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/49631984547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b78b83121f954d4a8d5b8d19f0ee7a3/16016863292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096eb1929840---setiwivozumekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/76653873877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ca40b17f---genez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/suzenerekiwatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34706b1777c0cf7327db7e05d11a6005/56288968306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=role+of+editor+in+newspaper+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_off0000ea39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA39 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1e4909fd1d218fbea6e3b710efef94b58ae00e58e88fe79ab3534744f81a5a
font_01_sfnt_off000102ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AE 16888 bytes
SHA-256: ce0f1aaa6bbb6b31e90b3804f43b1d77c7c2fe94eaeb94879ce3a630dc086e8d
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1