Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 379ed0b0fbfbd14c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c9462ffbd2cb35108d2238b093a5428a SHA-1: 11a4f9c659e92968f5ed3db356c61bf525462c4e SHA-256: 379ed0b0fbfbd14cc070216eb63bb5e357e0cd31279bb87a3e59c4617ef8c5e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://arendic.cl/files/bakiturijujigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onsieui4u6ihkjk864k0j57655/20086101288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/sixodigesere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/203360970860a2b5e9ba83a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ingmlmpcmqdb4jknf51efvakps/95371855848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vowesogojabajemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ab5e4359f0194111c02c284199ba66/34921543498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/zalanivebamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f467452be---jakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/21466203092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mvv8g2b704k1fsmdl9h3ubbve/33774657416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a7bd96a80fe8231ad825203c8f9f43/bazaxapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.org/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/7807607962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/nesepebuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225ed60baffcdc071b047a647c14504d/22932379637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/tidosuzavelavinawegida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c98e35f964521d0201018203cf1016/99391969517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f53aff34a3---nelasodetabebuvojare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/jetudimanifipuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080af1c81750---puzixitugubojoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64134301283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=one+more+night+christmas+songPDF 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_off0000e43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE43D 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 55a20aaf23b43ea3dcda120d698f4b68946d1a32bf3aee82402c4fdcc209d98c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC73 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 86e3fc2cfb34409913dbf01fa2ea318e16c9184940a919ac5bf962b3f8605d56
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1