Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 022019e728278afd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 239c2f7722b33eb44f52b4c7d26e6687 SHA-1: 3eca518cd47d29f0d3ca0520883b6aff52a901ee SHA-256: 022019e728278afd3afde5d2e102a85735f4be81964572edcfba716b2dd39aee
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. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft/super-forms plugin uploads suggest a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b17a11de5---62277358439.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfe6ede07a4976f83a9dafaa14c7efc/41264716555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svci9mnbh5ft3s7itmgdmgsk9m/debimadipugezatujefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m284bdlqj4aanr04aec6ie45ea/84953489858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/livuvorimonolabikemobodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/rukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancheng-medical.com/uploadfile/files/vefugumuxufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/texuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3oj97v2pu95gbdv23g2mitdup2/dezalebibada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/lonuxolisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/78555844084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/jojofadogibakixenagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d117b3bc23---bovebunimukazukixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/vewelabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fb32d9ddb---72683740090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/88780344382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b2fe7c74e---92086595713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68v81qs1tkog7tjqf6o9jot393/zowibupewemiwusoziraban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/ranebezupunugedalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611328c83c756---67829819857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb6f392764---13664297189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/56743123915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c394a14e488---rotereravodofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082f0bd215a208586d2e350cc1850fe3/wolurebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sonata+2009+user+manual+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_off0000dcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF1 17816 bytes
SHA-256: d9fba29405b00ac25b3ab2f2358761bb3865b511a1b863249b9d24f789e5e6d6
font_01_sfnt_off00010b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12330 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 7c590028c3f46890a827b3546f9b3eb429a94d05f09721d96227483838960df2