Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0128d52be0486baa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:08:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 31c9f7a9fc493e09b4f712dcd81fb173 SHA-1: ab95406c9285d9eaee4400e1e049844e27744c50 SHA-256: 0128d52be0486baa210ead1a8527e1e8137a556d90e1bca61e91ad0e1ec05d94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. This technique is often used to obscure the final malicious destination and evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27295ef59cfa0c5c8c02af7d8aa9f8f9/24766946061.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/50862119822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56514325047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexosagukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/gedefotegovusilujadinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7205094e5---bagoxaxejolibafutukebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8c11d13e4---xosomigupikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/64766710121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e11e980c1---86011643701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/9455045085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda3126c9ab7bb6dafedef00b6e27fdd/gazidilasafurazedipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aaadbb334b678afb4299fcbc27deeee/noxugafezarajidasafipites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd237c6f80c42f26ce62382fabb2e002/satafebobaxigopifebopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532627b424383192c2457ea9b57d6692/nupozonodobawanifigabixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/74742068327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/55822873900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b7f463e4e---dobununotugixasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/31650642852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/kedoruzojamivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roc.mn/uploads/files/29102553019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd73cff32---86315153100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nea61rf0vmsp375vd8e6ugthm/56794117209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c0be6ba35560dc3daef425ba80cd474/tugokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g6pbt8244hk1l6l3purldg2i9/zebumorono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=oregon+scientific+bar208hg+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_off0000b47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB47F 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 5876ae515f72153cb747353491726d262eb7f10b104ef8d2b937185c3d0ad44c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF26 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 538d7b5284af00c33a5ac4dbc61c836cfda8032e417aaa4df37e829566bcfdd9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1