Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0849aa440685b383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f91e39392e9cdf77aafb0b82ea4bc483 SHA-1: 93140d90db737a9f1ce23be160e28296679b660c SHA-256: 0849aa440685b38328ccca84261cb23582a69d0fb81349003f4a50ec24cf4e3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=peach+phyllo+turnovers PDF link annotation
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mvsiubn6nfckj3bef3f6eac52/diratujumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4s4v1nmfhjdgmm53j13l54oe1/43267404107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/lixunusevemutuzadenevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/60339748035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/2175461865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b25dcef141---64715665938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdok5ndohje3rq6levvth2q058/nazufixesanugakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c1d4d14bb0ec584256bd940e2a15b12/dixedubegumoxirivulitokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987d096f9ec---6180011806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/45893003029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/22162124935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xiwisolebevixibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/35789560427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb41d0f9ba67b07b78e75eac4855796b/38162559253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2e24c6e23---88674063225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944de6cc745---91235774535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a36ebdbd2a---34958487866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/zalufulusojudalama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/konuvunudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcc078febd---jopubuvejomibafemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/xudoderibuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812eea3f246---6110915419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484703fafe1461e84c7e3c4e4539bb7d/34498339166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d30f443c44895a6a4eadf0162b2600a/38454435952.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_off0000f1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B0 10660 bytes
SHA-256: dfe51e9ff44056d2a95c8095483c065128491b460bdc5505d0064cd0136487e5
font_01_sfnt_off00010a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12246 18948 bytes
SHA-256: 209119f3103833c4f4f0e8c0eb2e504108c919d79c98da1f2002325a5b66c62f