Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 393414f0b43cb550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:50:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2a0ddce6d06b395b22eb7584db8cb07c SHA-1: 4204fbb022f21c3ebbe038b0286aaa31fc81a812 SHA-256: 393414f0b43cb55001a54f3c647b4855182a5ef28556a0f3c2dd4c32ed84b67b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm, combined with the compromised CMS upload links, points towards an effort to host malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac513eaa74dcbda4c5fc45bf2c0ae35e/vasuwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee27e92ffd3---dowukerimejiguvejoduporaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/82832935555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bbb4e4116---luxubovibumekeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/80342836738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/19583485601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/08/13/file/20210813_013514_107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/tivikotedosinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/63332467936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/72835592220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/worimowoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/54744533192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/fopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajodefekawefimipabikoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba92875935143b1ec915d85c2541172/vufepozowomavenuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f222cca3---meviretunufesafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmet6ckqhst4170bku8e857984/32493243022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/271444207637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2357c8e85---89927900598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/75513318016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/sonadowodozavoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972ca63b555cc480f0552d05b5160f5c/13206244487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j4mdflcab4a71kbrbeiimnamk/270907534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=idioms+and+phrases+with+meanings+in+tamil+and+examples+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD82 20864 bytes
SHA-256: 2d63a949f5a669b61f413b973251304beb4adee82062431b4c3b1751088ac33c
font_01_sfnt_off000103b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B0 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 562fd288edf0dc1c321a64f169c2e235096f929dab22bc3fa90503b04617e46f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1