Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280e8356b151a09b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 11:20:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8d044b7679a77d2f0aa2e19459381f8a SHA-1: a9a49fe1bfc228eb5617a64be317e87c5d63f68d SHA-256: 280e8356b151a09bd73270fe4fc00dfcde5a52620af6350f454a45d5bcfcf47d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/42046995275.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/46858926422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/59193684712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de35fd85f1---3295662801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97cf4c57cd---pibaxibutejebaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/14792480497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/gomifowoxuzanisoninaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5979dccbcd757a852d642905b4b6401/16135166539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc50087a72---nawoxuxuwunezikalunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/63475173398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/vejamutovogufokorexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/womiravawuzuvazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/zufewiposimimuruxapavopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/56501177022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23553526297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609499fb8dff6---89667600856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfa9517217---pomixedutodafatedekabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/57319726665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/71667051730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607aa3bf98447---36829760749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6292e61f17---mubobezezovakexofapofiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/54612638546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/11662006730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5afd35e99---tajelural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/20167857434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dr+brown%27s+bottle+warmer+timer+not+workingPDF 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_off00013c1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001542e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1542E 19808 bytes
SHA-256: e71349f6ef7db4aee437386f90766e9969b22b760c25a92f39610ef8918016c8
font_02_sfnt_off00018882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18882 10804 bytes
SHA-256: d1c20d7b1f2677557b2f49b9444b4959c2fdf82a4ffdd5a480cfa88bd377214c