Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1144907d28e59a31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 596048ef307e960084122cb1835882bf SHA-1: 1a6f045ec160e067d172a98f67100b39fe6cd393 SHA-256: 1144907d28e59a31f6f1e5aea93d96eee611e949017c88e95c3b6926f4b517ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df0d04ba8d---39674444055.pdf
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/kukiratisanek.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1d800cfca239a50f72f5a723b9a65ad/tujifajina.pdf
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vegosivalujeb.pdf
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d393a1a1b31834363093ebe0ce310f49/dupewuwegasifa.pdf
    • http://hopkinshigh1961.com/clients/878968/File/18847421813.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568b0a9df7bf8d6dbe594afbebb0a27d/52216119901.pdf
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4320ee6bb314ad48f072c3f8c6e6a4/15807258947.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5cb0831e564f5c39a0e351383f26f3/16965659019.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3789a4b4515c844064d1fa6d8148a12/72543987381.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f11e03947a78752ed8a518b485405cb/70795386556.pdf
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/16308994232.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05b21d181b---31128477333.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee0aca888c---57445872101.pdf
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/datinasone.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47efbd9efc---pelenijefav.pdf
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/70263385245.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=biology+project+for+class+12
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013a57.bin
9796bac3b90ae03e01d2834f4f3379e962a14e0e8b99700e997d62369b9f8082
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A57 11020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015441.bin
169acb61307cd895ce896b803dcfeac2b802f6566a79dfafe74efc3f2f3b5129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15441 18156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000183e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183E5 16792 bytes