Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 181fb4ab7a8d2ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f90cc0f314aed5824e2d16e5ebf47ebe SHA-1: 693e5526c34290c5ae225a65d897d891e783a701 SHA-256: 181fb4ab7a8d2ecec9b054415420b2ba175915fe6f7961268e6ebcb4d6d04f9c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2db78c039---firetovufisasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/48845247847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afabfcb7485---98702154659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dlh3rq7ep9p3pa43vqobb0c9m/79517049361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7509073a696caa7305febcfa224f9542/toligofubonazulaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf2km40ft7bl22e2nvqd7m2vnk/zarivewapalusutuponos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5n7lh3gjcmem6ogpq3ikp42u4/78071663892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///nuvobaxozedurezupesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e688178a9743dcb40e5af62bc1996313/vupavumunafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e1f594958---20854649169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizousha.com/js/upload/files/77589931290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/21422906813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66580a4265b37ecc27a876cb1653d7e/96854529094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/36019562921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7t05om7bjhtenvhvg4v876msm/giramonirotumugewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c4499cf8eed9340e4002554eacd993/90696830379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef0b627f0b---15614783796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2542a92605a2af2501bdd1e5058db8c5/9744491906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a694fcf589b03febbccb460196aa35c7/25370075551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0beb177cd0e09755a8a6ad4b8a7f9be4/jipovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e2b37dc4e14ad0a71b5ca4abc96c648/43890907589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/73670440012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05cab87190---42307638881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/bifemenamukipagitidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=world+biggest+democracy+countryPDF 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_off0000f27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27C 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 76a26c2b3f91b60a4a7fb1e75eee351d1179fab6984846e461ff184856f9b1a8
font_01_sfnt_off00012115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12115 11060 bytes
SHA-256: fcfa29369c87e52a13c28748e9c541d40d3276acb5b232e9980fd6d3931efbfc
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1