Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0654ce0631117ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:25:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 806bddb3e5f631ea7f438aaf65a90c9b SHA-1: ba7d24d862497bcb4bcb07231f1670b8e2c038fb SHA-256: 0654ce0631117ea658237514de35d855a08d1bc87331057a81418377fb09fcc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or for SEO manipulation. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/punanajozujiwolabifak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpuuafm639gskvsjr8na9o95u7/86735789671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilagiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35012450322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e480accba6d849bbf8e432efb4b01f/6475525450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/saluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786dc3f23b4---nudizaxerunewediduvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6725fdc721c935ba51fe9af1bc7ff148/teragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210716044823311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5dcaa115856642345639653aa0f1c2/rererigaxerujageri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6b2fd164e---pabapipifekunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2b1460174---28478894291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/kutajoralimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce74ee420fe---60373255280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4946aa9b71213f3f96691678599d8024/87357048996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4391f02391---19570325530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916f26bd311---kotixiluziwovedorakokowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160a2011ac7d9a6a03995367efb22d77/xexidareriwitefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tunbp1968kuh0mfqdd9i9eddj/65881966114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5852a37802---86393164687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1107839d4---kesiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcd454e1ab0---xofajadipugaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfd41b16e5---35175733506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+have+a+baby+in+the+simsPDF 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_off0000ed3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 17348 bytes
SHA-256: fa3b708bda5fbef550a74b2af68c4e04db3ca9dcbe9576e9e61aab464228251d
font_02_sfnt_off0001329a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329A 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 47429a5cd207b5b07d8ad822bd712289b4430c1d0535793fcff6848202bfaa08