Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 383ecbfb2b831102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-28 00:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: ce4f44239a50a70860789db4289d1ec8 SHA-1: 6ca83c28bf9f912a2531c08fdc166b17a818f2c1 SHA-256: 383ecbfb2b83110255ec7e6030283b5e0d1b84da07a7eeb594112b3b8c3abb95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document, generated by wkhtmltopdf, contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, masquerading as a self-esteem book. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple links to compromised upload directories suggests a link farm used for distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c00e80ae92f67619a6239eae01e03c/demosilarubaduxenasex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7020ff7d29a96f5f1dc4af2bd6928c91/xogegaligamopizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a2952d74128fda0605344e6e8ab45d/60363274873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829743aa41f---rabikamowepanezugegeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em4v7lfp2gcrfsc4bbunpnvqbs/65603921632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607487f3d4079---jefezifadubusafazasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b414423bc540a3212ffedf7a5d6ccf3/juwavebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f0c5e012---11099145306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cd8aaafa2---54665675199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083950bbe82f---gilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b3b3e5d18---39046187025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa56f60079---sobewisigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6f3498ba---77146538091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088001f78f3f---27201058239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd3b4635e---senipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35452fb0e8486a82525a94484b0e48a2/waxulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh4r4m1pa21djukd13koauhev1/72310350594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c5fa5aef318ce6aeef7bb89da0f20ea/26009907447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+livro+auto+estimaPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC79 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 7677d4533ba46b8f8d153bdb60c4666780f306272bb74889c3ed01bf2be0cdfe
font_01_sfnt_off0000edcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCF 12872 bytes
SHA-256: 1f74ceb052825048fc849aced969f5b3e915e7527308cd27a23ae8982b69d393