Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280587447b3fe1dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 18:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 275b8b9e9b3e6b2b839a849167f38c22 SHA-1: 576a896b25e4788d14287291b7685081b567d640 SHA-256: 280587447b3fe1dc7fa48fe68d0177c930eb6a111f8814ccc57b0edb239071c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically leveraging the formcraft plugin for file uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607781683396c---gukizenaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d8e8a113d---nixatavomobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/73583537258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c44457bed---9726881694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8sq5e6lpu1b17tqldb9thrj1c/59937314888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cecc9ca511---duramoxalivubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p1gtac.com/uploader/files/xakegofozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/16161275902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lawonevikewozevimazizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/pivuzodofuwodirariwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/bubuwexujipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/32734744882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/kuxalopinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/97168453858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e2ed0ab43---7320384167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838d8f00548---visesolorugevajepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/25713028693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dcc376f4086cf94212b6f4a96af203a/47446847269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/somaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/28307170977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f505108f2469640419ed782eaa719d1/7652746853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/voruwupirawezovesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/81403744138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51f0d165bd965b20f8f03aaa5ed7c96b/53152944660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/56369593084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=table+of+contents+with+appendix+examplePDF 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_off0001349f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1349F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB6 11076 bytes
SHA-256: ddacbb4a7cd14e916c4b390491a621df4732d7b564af697f5a0d4266ab79c14c
font_02_sfnt_off00016637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16637 18300 bytes
SHA-256: b9d6c1b61c2f2f32964922d578f8ccd14a291a5181c9a644d58440e09cad96b4