Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 053042a7d84f473d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 28a7f91d91160d0671e8dac3188d4e07 SHA-1: 974d4e270177afa0d0f1856d407db011c6df36fd SHA-256: 053042a7d84f473df7b57066bf6c27651750551550522bb8b03cad63c928dcff
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a raw IP address in one of the URIs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609108e7770aa---rimawixezowofin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5011b8f25---tejatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/8087856069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608002425121f---84269051403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/93790040336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/musotalubilebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8436f0985b72e1524dcef3a068a71232/24824704886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/lowujuvewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/pejonavirivabarinujuzede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/40982010596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adad7c3376d---dibekufobodafisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbcca5679e0---47964163474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dolefizivigodutalopebenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f260934ffe8078d277693602c2d84030/towiwigevufaguxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/58184641511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d3da9438b---zixajizotamodiwevosewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24b033156e2f26440ff77c4ef370b135/nejejijujoresug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33142282368.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/dijipasowumugixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ff0f558ae---7086625993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/20531315375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/ratofudabegojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+empress+yes+noPDF link annotation
    • https://www.unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/xufirinixonaniwowakimi.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_off0000b9b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9B2 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 8d30f9b85d517b007878ac85352f1a649ecebd1db2dda2963857b7141ed7b777
font_01_sfnt_off0000d05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86D 14584 bytes
SHA-256: 010d44e5ba7cb490bf2366e93c243c83e4d53dc9acc8eb1c52f6ebb982a1e19b