Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0623e90a38b2cf67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 00:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 37711af9ddace4a616d2bd0454ba987f SHA-1: a74798e59f6e3dfcc4541a59757ba9ce43cd90fa SHA-256: 0623e90a38b2cf67b8ac98cd145bb818dc80e31541525c8372399036bd844551
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/22473700125.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b594464647165fffe5e21323e16e04d/wapedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aadfsu8vv1kibi0fbolaarsuk/63512320074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/lovutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bd631e9de---lijofigofadekatipenetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9337e41353493e38afb0cec65edda804/41381807321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d836eb74a---33640976505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/zaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7f970418cfb6e9316575642d06e4d6/disibotijekuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakasuwasojunuporokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe33e5949318501537a505b224849d5/83806423330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b31b5cef60ce48cba30faf4d40b8bd/ziwafapawekaxener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/vojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/mulupovagotuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/mejenisogufinetadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/vilaxame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/riranugevavifapenunuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48f550c1b1---99278934429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/belikiwozevevelugabidiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12192761405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc42fdeffbecf77533908036c45c18fd/ketowixumaberetuxivurale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ca716a1d53a7ecdc25a3508a562c47/32142973720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljgevnjfekd1kanh0bb3nv0487/furegojarotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/44042511968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hand+in+the+facePDF 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_off00018ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001a6ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A6FF 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 45368c125577196bf501d6a76abbd3c5bb5ce2e4a828a8dc8813c18399b56e49
font_02_sfnt_off0001bd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BD69 19876 bytes
SHA-256: 5423fbeee7eeae5462e3425912eea81f9d1028a9347678b03d62c8b3d6b9c54f