Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 278adf22bfead7ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-08-24 05:59:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fed9990bbff81da81b32de2a8554d285 SHA-1: bc5ec8da9b4abd0ad42fc8fed7a5d672f21053d9 SHA-256: 278adf22bfead7ff86fc5cd06ab73fd5e6749b631e9d13b7e1069393e5d9953f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/488c3b2604d426983cfc2028ab8dce4e/24823928237.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reunionclass.com/clients/7469/File/76254632137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/34061706096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/29125232248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7u2d3vf62ja0frg7d91l6elfr/lijemalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bdb310c8cde6554d2c8da4e132ebfa3/fefegomasulizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a59049e77f---18431086704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/zuxofisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a352c028589121eceb8fe963dd5525e6/jiroxubevogeroluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/semuzajededalaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/60394937225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/89192391316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/sejuxexaxasanefitekapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9e837fec---tifunizotibijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608798f629013---kujiseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c9ee5b361---xawaxinamaxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791c83eb858---ledibupagiwimusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/zizoxorivireloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents//files/nuzulubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608041282d0e9---kelelugijutakolitofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/55006342162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5863a26de0---meziguvutuvekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastwoodfamily.net/userimages/76451279756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonililazufuxoginuvugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/xogajule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=humanitarian+action+meaningPDF 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_off00010d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D49 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 168635b521804fa502ee21e631e319d97b46e31a26dd20bb827a2b9c2ea480db
font_01_sfnt_off00013a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A28 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 6e82ec4175d0c3a7ea0986b6c1d5533f5336c1d58a4fcfd59e6742126992fb24
font_02_sfnt_off000151d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1