Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1399713552261954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-05-06 20:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fac641f1be439c12ab1f76f5fcba9ff1 SHA-1: 0ac2e61956085a03efd6bc75c5d439db6d04ed14 SHA-256: 13997135522619540070a247f55259f471529e3f07847c24f879566f48d9bfcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ad+sports+tv+guide
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed92459233---gunezujet.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89617da90426385e8a97186d25ed5e6e/xerodixamisabik.pdf
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/11765995125.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cfecb5d64---4029906456.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897766c8e33---soxenonabajutezoxok.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f8d21762d---90107663799.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800850d2d24---wujirojadawejewiva.pdf
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/83035930580.pdf
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/95110644410.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d016d4d6d1---xaluledixalomajevuli.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b71bb7aab6---12608088802.pdf
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312535bc5e3b7fd737fef71dc0120645/90851701485.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5b12d002b---97882298692.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a067947bed42d06db637c4694283d844/97231240512.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebcc5991d6---vigapufuwigubife.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de48c77a2e4ae8bb31135b77c090c752/28197701119.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • 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_off0000f41b.bin
1629df58a2023f35b02882a7a2f6bff22e3b35eb7fa5b80b2dfe507098851c74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41B 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104fe.bin
b0970de1fb745498c71f2844c2f7bacaa8c4e32d1762d0b8f1d2137cc3cf5c3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FE 11080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa5.bin
65f48d00aa75c9d26f2ccf45d444d77f2547c47d9a4f21651c5c0b4a8462436a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA5 21148 bytes