Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289fe1f37055202e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 867bd494da4ec8a594f68c0eb14f8f2f SHA-1: d3a5e61ae85be7e2a0c360d2e5d2ef14e404894d SHA-256: 289fe1f37055202eea48f15cc3829f6f5564678a3dfda402d9a5c4b704a1e1f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm that points to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a phishing or redirection attack. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1539900c9c65680422e9bc49d3d3ae19/29470198726.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c60f29f9c---18545584937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/7712067939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/jimejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bca2c4a3c---pilejapoxilofigomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32852406da2485bf65ab10856139327a/kasawedadirele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/30309459897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/betus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5afdd6b2b---52595715323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke70877km90kanp8565a14ecbi/89936530684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714b0be5f47085841e866455e2eb9792/ledapobipekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/47235631812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/zuruwilitovufizomabefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8d006a9f638ef94ea7bc811fe1f436/16294571986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a291b194566---jorubobarivefitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16263510346651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1980reunion.com/clients/e/e5/e5e9f74eb83211af097e98bf68d59c4c/File/pukuporufuzodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/zemizuxifamonepufamedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ad7c58b6f---novesinagezafoxagideno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8927885e1d1e179e4e50aac9b498ef/ruxubelunexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/wofowejofapevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/90851915448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grhs1983.com/clients/72571/File/sunovinuwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/poluratosirirere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768fd728bcf60bfa6799842cc5dde6a4/fuxuludaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/66423433476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=reexpresion+de+estados+financieros+pdf+unamPDF 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_off0001121f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121F 19208 bytes
SHA-256: 9c061808b6eced4bd9506fa8e5ea7851ebbd4c32661066ca4917c62c46c5b950
font_01_sfnt_off0001433d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B54 10984 bytes
SHA-256: b53dce4ccda31bdc80c286b28e440677bd5b14c9fee21f642a7f5e92f2b3e3b6