Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332ccf2761a0d909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:05:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6bafb83de592763ed98b2ca0aa4a5e90 SHA-1: 192707fdacbcac087abc8e8c80e698183d8f9c56 SHA-256: 332ccf2761a0d9092e6dae2d64191fb77b3c186596454cce139a3b8be8c8e23f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malware or phishing content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, leading to potential user execution of malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4891f5fba7c183463796790ec82a4e7/9697094757.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc3464fd11---77168324101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/57526971032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34ab1ad145fbbf169e2c039dcdb9fda/1532211904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/vutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/720989fec5b48bb5e03c917a32effb64/fibutunamabukusomidixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/30606625758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/zafowudewunejiwivewosaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/55247517987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c905ee64716541a25363d57a952fff/tigojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0900abbc8265e302d4855263c49afa/tadogosozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607890ebd3329---zejopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corghialberti.it/file/zuxilavubefisuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7aa9bf950---dalilebezanujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpj80v6b7qghqsvs2bktjp2r4h/44074117691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0060b16a20f45519659a3def7c433f/7553115051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969a4b39445---55426198117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edt2o1s90qucufgmbfrhh77ivi/dulomamazisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/pusuwenesevukisukukonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/72361841648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caec21c9b4---ropabugisuwejujajisufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/siluwenewubevorilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/kevisemiwugewujasopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j53qhg22r26vh8jjv6q9fk0obe/48514368264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=little+boy+blue+and+the+man+in+the+moon+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_off0000f016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF016 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 2d5f431745e43edc315ce5aba8fecadeb24b0b7a1b5bbf6d20834257b98c41a8
font_01_sfnt_off00011e33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001364a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1364A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 766caa729b9cf4989d09e38aad24efe9f6da0e4fa169cfd23b01cddeeb51264b