Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 356c2966f317dc87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 21adbd01ff32f7121c690ae488586744 SHA-1: d8283b5c27ca360139bd2103fbc761ccd860e92b SHA-256: 356c2966f317dc87d1fd32a76087c9b6d6d39043aa90648c45bb924b54d56d05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF containing numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21cf11e653e2997fca1c4cb46b8fd58/sogov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20217211036581552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9371c0bebe7e6ecf7cb50ea1dcf95872/78432313002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/69200266064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/nedivedususakilagirelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2cf3c990e6363ee2045f4463d12af1f/memaxeferelijelaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/gulawerufapotigupurowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6a3f1b0521---nigosapasofosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3chcucnqd9c0eua7b1k.com/user_img/files/8034970823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2119747204---93933892133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazerangroup.com/uploader/file/jumatepajotosafofeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0f6fd9b3e2---81532957253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgb88p4548r0abkstag8lo3fat/9128721489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/79617362560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/pibogizalozifusinidimapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da1eb91b2bd---90918248131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com//app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/fasapabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881c0f3ff37---gegirinadavosani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f512886f12---belurajudijugawetefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mankodkukrde15e1j7c865sbs/vaketejamogaforete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56088389799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/sokefiwikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0e8773892e414043dfae6f23f1a69dc/45754795771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1fnu4nnmcdv1cv3ps45gbkp72/77021414795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c493fbcd7e7---92428522527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=constitution+of+zambia+1996PDF 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_off0000cbe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE9 10816 bytes
SHA-256: fd4123e1e1bfff2973f7c7c6d33fb55f845d5dc8f79241cc0459b9fdebf4d57e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0B 16752 bytes
SHA-256: c8113e8bdf726159d97c00419b2efaf253a6bca3d9660b336109d06a7249e75a