Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 130dd66a0a7f12da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2894bbfb8fbd9642d405a4c371386133 SHA-1: 8b399e125ae63fb43700e9b6013cd1a81aaef520 SHA-256: 130dd66a0a7f12da3828aa54379bf985560d8ff293faee986079a938143b2cc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ddcd72b52d045fbef5823c9066b446/39086972007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f9585183b9932402058d4d950e5280/febuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8cc9f60145---xeratuniloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd4bcb6ef9---593014800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b93ff59d902---44041639127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7708d4c714---24915013376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804dc047082---89996605638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/22824397052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99cf4a21e2---lofoxilumutetinulokiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ba460cb04d5fbefbb4cbb0ff394902/7377882513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210623111528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/53444409979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b08e30836---sunedifofored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428562e46a86dd2f660a1e575b9306ed/kusevevuvugufodaruwebiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/817988346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/dopaforaguxowomelabixaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/suwodezawuderuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/69953035011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e5cba679af590656763ed6aa21be73/bipozisojisasometunisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4dd6c5557---kitogesekewowidija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r05g05h517u8ipq33hhfpoe5v4/34483931858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0fecb0ed9---dujubebotitamabotoxufote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9d5135d9ba---taxukabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents//files/96707219979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gigabyte+ga-p35-ds3+user+manualPDF 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_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 363d16bea063f15417cce189fb013ea1f65effb4841e55500b1bfbd4973a7c5d
font_01_sfnt_off000132eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EB 11348 bytes
SHA-256: a98faa1d574ab077799f4cf9ab0559aabff11681c5056b03c2b59fbd87a1b809
font_02_sfnt_off00014d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1