Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1344765add1783c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8071f08f7dd69eb1bd22f0689ec7497b SHA-1: 6c2c6392647595024a463327c3ff49be5a8cfed5 SHA-256: 1344765add1783c9ceb1538f09e0197c7e7c1e25f762107fc3d7fce6e387ab20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate maliciousness, with the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggesting the document's purpose is to host a link farm on disposable hosting. This pattern is commonly used for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efea7d0573---8843261013.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85ec3786ea---nekeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7fd5479480510f12a6cb79bb00324f/55714451447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66bad3350d---viped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967f1ddf76e---lubajuzuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608995c5c31fb---8479246867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/1141_20210610090629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608550d585e52---24804639548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/rugafevuxiluzamolifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerilyndavisrobison.com/clients/870655/File/95829042012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa278e408f518f5f9b6899b4355f171/boterumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622372943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299a556d1d8351a0ef092a7e6ef7d87a/dixupenofotanonowitevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/83209266940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210613125053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7379abe28b0e2df23051895cb87c992/22622421132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a65620180b---99326686660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a1c5207f5---24900291184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/37919397380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/zamojixitajujopovowedojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e6bbddc3bb21419ff3df98a910dc77e/60732687876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=look+for+a+pattern+problem+solving+strategy+examplesPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/jinaw.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_off00010f2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12742 11172 bytes
SHA-256: ce4ba241591dbe776bfd8211efc854f779fd7139e8cc9a0d2716da945aa74a99
font_02_sfnt_off0001412f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412F 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 1401884d797a528b79552258b5a1e6ccfe0fa555ae1f950759aa7cec201a66c0