Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 054f8f83febbf367…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e40d48de6eae0a03a1cac81e250e8c2e SHA-1: cdb2237574e70ad71c70c4ba288a1a1e8f0944d0 SHA-256: 054f8f83febbf3676688a93269c5d98b8cccb6464be7c4c026885cfd255de594
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest this document is part of a spearphishing campaign designed to lure victims to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/zupivawomabawonurokunu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d82758dfb77---3810242318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/54766212737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/48262006962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/12837856712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210814150437_0ojp9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f6c77cf88---juwoterigidatomivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/18018223850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430215048792164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/10463362246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8770176060---niwopetolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/943k95hkdusv6dd29bjdm80go7/sanemopavikadetemudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4754ee089c---79662901385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up0h81nie38lu81i9tsmqir8eg/15235249864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611950b40ad1d---91967525331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanasiri.com/piceditor/file/nezatikegixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f62244c66f4a087c38213fa1fb79829/61439911478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setadijital.com/img/userfiles/files/15974625032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/98387142780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eaa7d14ce---tatejoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/5302637096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd338575b29---151325788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cranford+elizabeth+gaskell+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000dfe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE3 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 1ced34ecec3ad8250e38edaaf3795f800fba75008a27f7d5b0119ef4e66a7538
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CE 19096 bytes
SHA-256: ff8d760f813cd22072c1aaa92808c8b2860938e8802c4333fe3179dfa0aede91