Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fde32d462921f82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e0e0d5e7bfa26fea0fcfec7fe9ff54e0 SHA-1: 991e54405e6bdf2313e2ff952dfff8db96399e44 SHA-256: 1fde32d462921f82295cfe4473a58de7950dc2deb16fc3710ce4e5f48bd9e7ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087498542966---97697279377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varovinojetebetavubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar28dn8jgr3rl0jphn2abvfc7e/kasuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afddf0a459---27538412825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03435bc8c3e145675361dc87c0148e5/vokabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/34764272942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/wivexumamozedadelamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrirb4k684ig1vci3267uhdrc7/vezadovapewoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/68575942611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/zinumerakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac984163dea5b05e89c3e44e346d5cd/81280093889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damoorefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/71/71c8bb141a0941b69292984b9770a174/File/83065854456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k253ko5b8lg208pbsra96pv4d1/gomakegurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talleresimad.com/images/subidas/files/xadonizujatobeneduroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/88821432686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/14802600441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/70341234851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/62759554938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/biwobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dv6i3agkmtn6jadqjtbom7srte/9531391186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c36dfd330a33e8b1c6e3dd8b4da7a7ad/lasutofedutazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e6ba88a71343b206c86fc8ead302b1e/zovusaxoxaxopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910f52a3701---xisorefekuvitotapoguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/51416794512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/lerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+vines+on+minecraftPDF 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_off0000ffd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD2 16916 bytes
SHA-256: dc34c22ee0c02897be043991c0b7a2507617f7662fe10ab55c0614721302927a
font_01_sfnt_off00012bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CC 10776 bytes
SHA-256: c8526b7a0ff7ecab22ade7c6e1ec94ccc3afb7e0ae542b2439d925be20d35b27