Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 286d25c598569ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 00:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: aec717f2529d470e5ef3d76600d44b48 SHA-1: 89ea5bc5b83cc32cbc00d2fd53e386a62bed15ea SHA-256: 286d25c598569ece79c573cecac743a9018fa6779dc0b65ec9d396cb17812e32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and numerous external links are consistent with a tactic to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4330e3a85cbbd680ee0b9135456757e/mujuwetikexen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/38472525577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/72151907605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6cfcb3016316057a54181db50a344a/3071374903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/86334174771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/fegenubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zavirozimudipanolasufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77399d4a98cfb4ec5538c45a90d79f36/33602723802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/95333444571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/70043898107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/gefolozomikoduzovelako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d8aee8265---55201306363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents//files/xewowazureguvuzojorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/bikurafamonujukazava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/develotepajabaxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cedb57215---86203783193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60014af04d01f9cb6c07d2dd0cb6a121/3360913764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/rokidusadokorefesivexofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd2178e195---watupowunogubazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/xememalosewiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/xovekokupuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkohut.pl/file/judedivetebaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=in+a+commaPDF 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_off00010ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F3 16912 bytes
SHA-256: c829e12ed67b40f9325ad7e4b54155ec0c5e7ce6e825a422f786a6be38755854
font_02_sfnt_off000150e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E2 9708 bytes
SHA-256: 37753f57a3c12e2ba82ff81fb1a918633ca7c504f5233173d2520219428ff984