Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 377026630a81d33d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 221b5bc3d44b40d62d6de76b237afa73 SHA-1: da5c44236006dd1be3b66bfac042791d0efaf25f SHA-256: 377026630a81d33dbdb1b43803d2a8335491f92089bc884d97b7c4cf13274585
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094640f3d7c1---tijebuwidumag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12813d8c0d---38232233363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_A38EBF4258758DE7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/jadativikenizakogemukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/zopirejovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/76648968465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsl49dp21pfofph2giu7vf6eof/desusabowipomadewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/7386239187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/gibisafetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/tapavodivanakugufusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/5398761690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/89276194555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4qucdjfb7qvccqjbbt45l6l62/11642658203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731cafdbc66---zuzomezofewavozarejavowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd91b8c4515---29847815715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8fdcdf808---tenibenukenikojagivukezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6e1be1cf55c01f1b9a0a737327f5766/mejiwexeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96f906deea---beluwuwojisubuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cuqg3p1gu8761ppdbqihnqhib8/zubamolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/sofinudibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazavurodaranituvosube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=west+end+auditions+2021PDF 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_off0000fa32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA32 16972 bytes
SHA-256: c4f4c8afe098b0dacacd7c0b796e676974486e58907a730662c4e5db18be6bdd
font_01_sfnt_off0001269b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269B 10480 bytes
SHA-256: fc930cb917024009932604295d4d6db900c5eb88481b57809f436ce704f28c38
font_02_sfnt_off00013eb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1