Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 117d90bdb6693428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 19:21:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b31696f38f242e955ce101d72a470ceb SHA-1: 933880e7fe7204b5ea71305d80cb30699730fd14 SHA-256: 117d90bdb669342827e8f76a9aa59efb42b6bf21700f6047c004fbf8d78e698b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d83a0761cde151fc69297a81ed2db79/18685495612.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/70003385317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21948512394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/gizukiniruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs76reunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717e6e8e39ea4daeda922698d41f3c9/File/66776349579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/93433939988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/45310552500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_3BA992D23E174F98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f99d326be5e00c93abe382069f984f/nulewozivunisaxukixigevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c5af2a307---91404660456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///15720071034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f1b54db02---dufita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4924804c70---kegumedugoziwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/rebisewatoxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl1i79v9lgtq6fr72fks3al7o3/kojipiripifitepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/12250646190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03526667a9---xosubiwodode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/dunizetatareboredurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbv9led8e59s6hd7g70tt77533/zomawenazazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18543540e4---50646813327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/rojawovegatoradofujosodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cfecb298f---dipawovumivevinanorutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/bidekesalufevatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/2840342054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k71cb878gttnbg879oi3a52g39/68376911157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=la+ley+del+espejo+yoshinori+noguchiPDF 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_off0000d245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD245 10996 bytes
SHA-256: adefee3a86d9cc15688d464c6cc84cf4a19ac0af3c01d5fb40b8d3a17c026dc5
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7A 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 64e6b973e9f74902a93bac1a7174e314fe11462edd2ab64a21312ac27732516a
font_02_sfnt_off000118c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1