Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 255197baf283ad7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dcc79c395707383d0eba17ceae2d2536 SHA-1: 2fcf6b0ac92eaf40b45820cc96eb74c81a78134d SHA-256: 255197baf283ad7bf6beb8068828bfe63e98784910c482e4540a17c94cf68fac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware download sites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the 'utm_term' parameter suggest a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb905d3d5773c1bbbda81ccd79afb60/woteze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca6945521f---4446106795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idrbfiu6pt7tpmpff7l0kl3vc5/zuxujefame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/23823305868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaddc0b2f0---zaloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f23bd6deda---86297397966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b56ad5a98b---palezuzujilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36a287963a---kepukopanowudirubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da5cde0e548955650453726e7b9abf5/zikujezereposigugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae46ff9a32e---jikepevosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/rezozoxibonigikunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/81735801340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad95c63d10ca259c564cd0b793319a2c/49824594808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e09f1dec8b---32660055466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/mapibatidemetolodegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/divuxotitozibifafubifosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7443cf5f4a63ee336ff4fde0e6c54ba1/54168646668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ede6a8ea6---23981728131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71ffe0e6b2---vurevosixubenidepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e9e523f247b1472893d5cd55ea7cc6c/vidot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76267576d0a3496f514da502955afbd/69782804393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/59609565335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=vba+open+excel+from+wordPDF 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_off0000e6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B1 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 16be3390c9c4d5c49367b6e526e022c267119c61bd70246cae7393bcbd85ff44
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11739 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 9043bec249415e45b7e8977857f7def36f632df0638166b6ed0e010fcf42a958

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