Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00629f9855177c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 01:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bee03910d098197ef1ae06870243a877 SHA-1: 91d5906ad6182a4dc697215d599b43cd80627086 SHA-256: 00629f9855177c70f3a770ae60ab6254b2f8e68bbb95fdfef4151aa4ae66aa2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious redirects. The presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on disposable or compromised domains further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5a72e9b8a---43083378881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/23634813434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621843237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glcore.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5586459299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/gapowenekozuwupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608778addccab---32901773636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c382d577e03---64779229563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210529_AD75B6C555DE428B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr8g0616pcngdff2jl79gvrglc/134129540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.de/files/files/87388157960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869b3226f4b---mukorowexivixonobomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ffa36cd17---sutakubufesomesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb7b3515d2be9cf540249f7b189f964/37328077284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99fd52b73f42d02c466226803c3721ef/diwubupozevefomajafifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0e8dc791d---21251300320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b273388b045f294f7ba5cb67ca7b72/numolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4oia60rm6ran8v7k07iqee6b7/jomugixofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e7f721b06---jugudaxikapujewemaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/49180174706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80e6947663---83126916614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92311c1450---71132318829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae37b1b19381f446adda4baf456f91a/19745473266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=force+majeure+clausePDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575fb42c288d35493ec74ca8db0f65e7/16870545894.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_off0000ecfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFC 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6ffba71c0296c02c39ccadf49d309bc17c38011f8d3063f7f5e86eab364446
font_01_sfnt_off00011821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11821 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13038 10304 bytes
SHA-256: a93257b5a6004b31bffed872f9b737f0fca0cea303fd0c4b6933d103d2ff54a8