Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1de4cd17e94ac8f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 20cab61a942bb0ac24f46d32ad4eba3a SHA-1: e56e4a9072594c2bb2a0beb83afb3ef1295ee77f SHA-256: 1de4cd17e94ac8f0365bd949c9ba6f18b49b623ffcb4e813e8b948c5a185369d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various domains. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/gubidonugudajibag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59d29b32ca760dfa74f68ca6d4082e7/83264324014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/34695878919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a3e9d009b8a06510376fcab5cbb6080/zizizuxalomebivusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d836e4887cb37aa9beaaa1722af5337/wutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e8982bd65---tirumotosumuxenutowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff1b4ee50b---lijurijaxevitumomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5891972396423286ba0ebed525f88347/56189392016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a997131ba6---90322808156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ddee3b8aebdd9e639b56d6ac8c19a4/58323339500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8724539624442f84eb89cb94bc245f1/jesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47a367c0a249764d31aa5f700f426c9/66646478221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogudenabeziluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73182584670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eabcd6a4deab0a81a1f3ba9fde5e585/jukusaruzojibanakerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd07fb6eba---75461709985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7883711eac33ade3cb01bb66e9e5fa9c/nuxexukudorufinama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/jarosapuzaxobujozepewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0a5cef262e2db11662df297cefcd0c/74657754454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad1151ba6e1b5ef596cbc672d9c0617/88672411071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr0dc5c9vdjtlahkea8l8n4i5p/83217121588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c04d29556---46176281244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bad+blood+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000d69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB3 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 202a7188f6356fbbb68a8626bd5fc83a14f9e9cfee5ca93041f106c4e8903067
font_02_sfnt_off0001057c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057C 18720 bytes
SHA-256: b84e309d2ea8ddcdbd9b3c979c9837991a22833fa2c0bd86bb7995ba00a4273e