Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 415ad27c06d6b243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2fccc0719120c370a9054d4a641d663f SHA-1: 560820219d7f319a234ba837ec0110654a4a8132 SHA-256: 415ad27c06d6b24355f80e44f2504e6b4c70600e90f585b74a7f3ba4cb662b2c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl5cvltp7j2qjgvtcmdpkalu25/mujuwive.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955a7488b84---firezefotewugosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612575aa36409---muwelenazifimatago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/pegitawilofezasegawesorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3d7ab941805a85da11e02ddcfb3508/75536039580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210829120723858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610053ccca8f8---28920413402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/1302955370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/79139986975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/poguwokojeraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcfd4927f0---68699446221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849ff947dbc---37940244978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/tegaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/xuxewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/pedezubifonoboxatetovemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usv93jq4aldtvmpqiaqkmehvo2/51628018821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077392ad7785---lisodozawoduxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunkamalzemecilik.com/userfiles/file/tumelagorixone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/risafudiboxesonivevudedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f48d4c7c55---27588437737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/71273286797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujanevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/pikudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=apostila+alfabeto+hebraico+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_off0000e28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28F 21960 bytes
SHA-256: f7959d301b118ba0ea034add6d5a13492c59781fe1dd630e711a30dd4c7f8347
font_01_sfnt_off00011aeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEB 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 78f421fbb4e7af395a5356ee635edb24d870b6494d69faecaec1aa3f99f1fdef
font_02_sfnt_off00013381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13381 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1