Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df3f38861cfc17e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 08ff9bf73c93401e7b079e28214a2d6d SHA-1: e25dcbe097740edbd6c2f31a4d025c04e7d80089 SHA-256: 1df3f38861cfc17ed2bd86e7db9e4d8f29c6c1cce9c9f101780f441b4582ccf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF containing numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing formcraft or super-forms plugins. These links appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, which is likely malicious or phishing-related. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b9ac8b8b6---22190690904.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4b867079a---tijirugovoneluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21acf1627164ea7c8c0bbeacda971a39/11191851487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/xozejiton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bc802f477a12fa9c708728e6d79794/15332629326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097419f129ea---18878348234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9d8b386b5---wadodupiborejovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/sonajijixiwobusakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fad7c628c---81780565780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/dumigizatetada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80408fae9c983b51e4bb6af042c9ca98/26016205379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0e445245---53905512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eprobatdz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadizevodomogebokifaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mj1a8no60o3bt9am1mnei5b9bg/venameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3uvam4ufmc8q8nqbcr2h0p9p1/batajitokigotutewefapamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davejifitepotisaravegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3dc563a8e8e17d0660d3b2cc8fa1c77/daduzeperovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/84225501720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-4/20210604214903969686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/33526173310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/lirutafilikovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/togusilerokusibonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b65a01dfc---8266745466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/38398973712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/38017656931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+percent+proportion+worksheet+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_off0000e254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE254 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 9dcef7432d1e080e2647aa5da671b56593a08961a545459e0ca4702fba804e86
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11297 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 5142384c7c8905b3ce9ee9c35f98ceec7df9df8aea94349f646730fcb922a92d