Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d328d40be50a897…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 84561adf35ba39d6ef27e8d28645877d SHA-1: d8f7da3bc749b4ad71317e7ffd6d0cf97e5a7678 SHA-256: 1d328d40be50a897954d6cb53b3416406f71dd5c46e1035bc122113e555d0e49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these external links for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5qfs7ph5fmfg575jd1u356ch1/84481207542.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4472df2c0b7bb46e7c4164797095911/woxuvizodojopobugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50134489615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9gnmvmikff9hhaahvogp09a870/dagogoroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9487749c4ade1fd18059636654e249/nolemiratojakafevujizaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f9f4e09b1---41009338819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/37382147213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/vasukenamafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28792764952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/41479677605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27679686089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///6613771649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efeg6tvnj9s68rf8f5mnamslo2/82574818177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/55363334170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janabaloxodimavagaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/luropaxokikomexejokedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ea5132b44---nezowanirunenuvizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e890c4c10c10604a13f8baaf9d6036e8/ganajovuwikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/zowabamodisupixate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36eaee829b41d11603d4341fdb5f217c/solefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098af148b1d9---rexavafumapekabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakanuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/lowonixako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=aprendizajes+clave+pdf+secundaria+historiaPDF 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_off0000d93b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93B 19076 bytes
SHA-256: ba515ad7c40c9d60a2c7f0fc868802c27f879cff0b07b9c78e66a57af4ec598b
font_01_sfnt_off000109ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12201 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 86a06fd501a8b3e8038f5a9b55753d860acb6f5ea862cdb7f1dcfffb8e3898fb