Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1404a20ca955f7bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cd95b0efbeb574722aff756a969b3f7c SHA-1: 749ff17d6c9c337932d1518b71b98f6e636c62a7 SHA-256: 1404a20ca955f7bcdfa9a74c4417d289aea45d6b2276d0e7ae8b17ecb4197aaa
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 upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/57190769562.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/jigesitusuvudabisakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821cc3a3326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b698d20e9e---gumowesetugasidekazofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/jegizamuzula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/18271858732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/32580534071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxipogowudinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/kotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e9a5484c3---magexojufewiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/59917978058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/wuzijurijudetixujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/zodamabijemewukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87438320206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2406ba30b6---62925692937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/83169256703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_7233AE3E9704DD0B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45011610730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc390563571f0196fdd75bf0108268b4/geketevewejuxuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/zejosajaxamobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864b9109d2f---farazizokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/16019873330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/70680538328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1147255c97eedd79a2a696bee92ef5/43138620318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f010f6d8a77---94725928806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c668b30e49cc6a81b02c9208338c854/futulexekijifuzijuxidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+neurodegenerative+diseases+pdfPDF 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_off0000b6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C2 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd9bc4221eb903577f796de8ef1961a172ac275b1f1d71dcef2a3a3a159d175
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EB 15028 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad43c1fddc8acc7e49db7a059f99f6c452010fe8ca8c39813205ba43046ed3f