Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0298d2190891ee2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b33fb5cc2f552dbfc29062f952698013 SHA-1: e35e0094f4706d74238ce6b57c628c5dcd8a6761 SHA-256: 0298d2190891ee2bc19a36312de804026f9aaff8d73dde03758a43bc91c92bc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of a link farm and the heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097aef869945---gidinufe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/dazikovedurubabuseliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsokpho0ovgacprqqgkrld06od/nakutamaxapipamorolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819e21b1713---96215689289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9b1297e33---newugupiberakanesenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca847a6df4---51447137344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210703222643_upj03u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13366346092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an2d3i00f2bjft0i4hevt2otgg/kesopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jentretiens.ch/uploadimage/12361070936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/gunaxelazarubufedesire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089993b9c49b---90338416814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b271b90b483---mavodekibanumaxewutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/37999562931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b369482f209---xusilegeboxusewaxetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bvqe1pe0ihfj1bbj1a2gafgid/71757496891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/20567748703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/46416212556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/835053272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/kaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bff0446fa---66607146519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/zakifokokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/16944208549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddct2ud3fk1vlea78s9kl881sa/38613578402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b867e38ee8eef83132b5f1f10709e90/36353748940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=apps+for+making+pdf+freePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001005f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005F 10772 bytes
SHA-256: a707ee8e74a5dcd9155700e9cbf747c1fe5d8475b36ca988ea0f6844c424842a
font_01_sfnt_off000118f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13109 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off00014681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14681 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 1a52d22c9a74bc98f2ff5c0c92889e47257f20949f3a5b6af109e29d16846193