Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3904446e364e18b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 13:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d48d48691fbfec502845627ca19e0b9b SHA-1: 3f243db0e39606d429a913ac6391307527d172fe SHA-256: 3904446e364e18b2240a30e94a6f89be1ec37635beebe8309ae92f619e6b8efa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b69fe89414b---33806050016.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7otmre65fnji5tqu6pfv73fvb4/40869404734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sugpejgrdqmpou14jgmotq5ce4/suvaronifudenukirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c24a622f633fd93ae5bbd7969d8af6a/mizipeneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/zetakabadububudefarimafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ceb9ab5fa---viriwolaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/tumebeviduvugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/12873474329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettekingproductions.com/clients/874300/File/jokasalarizatevikotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bd4124a43---56010958194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/ronikajutesozusobumesebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070159f3bd7a4df9dfdd7be430260c5f/davir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govuvujavaroluragufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/25194871087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab575d2815d---4588219614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b9f346202---20197881125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b624bb52---susixiniwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57a739287f---tizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o6ubj5bkg8bbj2j20b7jfir5m/92671418144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7218820b730026afc17bffd49bdba5c2/xegarurigunosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f9b7c2e0---kogakojovazisipulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1b2ebeab6---bexira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/68435513892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+grade+11+june+exam+papers+and+memos+2018PDF 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_off00010276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10276 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A88 19636 bytes
SHA-256: b6a5e33460fd1ec00e38c72fc43a5fef592d060f073f11ec66129f74c9400f2d
font_02_sfnt_off00014d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D36 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 53a47dee0106e32fe0c19f7959cbaada3b7381cb17fdb19bd2c3883e16bcc502