Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 142947b32bddb7ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 20:38:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 58dd613576253f7bca895724e0713578 SHA-1: 37adc08aee27e3d207d42f6d1ad2c947c379d8eb SHA-256: 142947b32bddb7ea4713a7bd08287380ad2475fa042b23b5efbc98e142bcd8b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm that redirects to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection intended to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099af4f28284---7042871320.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5951fd8940a477d7d5fb14b23cb8871/libudosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed439457de070fe1bc56b02254cefa1/15379443281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2612758bbcba911852181f9f302361c9/divawoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3a708955---94065061773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda852c422640f7e0807578dfddf654e/jubonurubomajizadamikilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/fekogazisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/nazuravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/84333754986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/99689121215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608049f7585c0---kinosadoxazoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/90456054969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b880f36f430---susuvoxexideridawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/guxazemizaloxoxudokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2o1il1kqrgghhsq372bu37q94/41514749509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2440027.ru/upload/file/84012309119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/bosixoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751d0b4817a---lusizebijorigukorobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/govomepunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/82890935953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2536c78816---93167955219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jeraxagonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c540bad0570---41159454053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf7b885deb8724729f94cc38c7854a1b/57486171738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=academic+reading+test+2+answersPDF 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_off00010214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10214 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 37d747d8dd9088fdc0b8c0501279f0d1a6596f4e7f1e05906ee6cc176da02b2a
font_01_sfnt_off00011aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BE 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 6b065844c16150abeca94dcf0ddb2cbb77e5279ae9d633d1c556b8f95db67661