Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408f5054fa8da710…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:48:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7b389ac2fcb9c4a8eecbde4a75cff0f5 SHA-1: 2e3f1aa6709e9d5e14eb15207c3beb7a821eb367 SHA-256: 408f5054fa8da71045fc5dca785e9b4a0f78d2207c1b37c5276b931ebc21b369
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm, with many URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to lure users to external sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac86d107c7a---42358905993.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46522624106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/bizomodekasugosoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d245004872---41785836577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/riguparit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934f4f262c3fcfa1cb736eff44be2056/sobopelovomunipadafode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/wovikiwuduradagubusuleniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e90bc5e6db34ebe8dc3e55e28b05e3/lugigeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/wofafovejexulevuvodube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d206a53c31---3265237932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/revik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/25889107033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64a1c6ce6d56d6b060e0d3754ff99a4/92248897791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/sezomodagegijowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b689771270348eefe9126656f937e597/88926239235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/melisamolubesoduxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/fepaxuloram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/sowotonapavomafefisiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/13182921489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebogixufadudojovupose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/zumubasibupiraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/xuluvevugabujidajenogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087eb245bb92---18841973360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/mufokoluzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=number+line+worksheets+6th+gradePDF 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_off0000e40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40D 18088 bytes
SHA-256: efb17e42d022d6f47bc7488d40287ab2ca99025b4b7356b4c959a26fc2f4573e
font_01_sfnt_off000111f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A07 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 1ef5780ab18d0c48d92c39d4c6dfc50d85e7680327c1c1f93b5c6f0b47e69763