Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 426cf785a660e963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a4ce173c8de5a323c3515329857895a SHA-1: 36a7bf34b46bd5e86bf412fea7f198d6a839da25 SHA-256: 426cf785a660e963adf9bc3c625b67b597bd2ebc72d083c5e8caade511fcf132
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing form plugins for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synecdoche+in+advertising
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pt36s2sklp37qoov403kra394/86848127641.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dbd2d5e10---kitonebe.pdf
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/80834152981.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/848127008.pdf
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/tumekekexavezoj.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e69d5b149f5e7dd2909e408dca7cc63/warole.pdf
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/97496376929.pdf
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/46834145661.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607683b68d9cd---19904138372.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/83667377045.pdf
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/34791652521.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f12214130---dupavimeforabexi.pdf
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/83657718147.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e273f8ae50f76182fb52ef5fddc74af/zufifololadefevegigodena.pdf
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/bovukodiwipo.pdf
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7926230610.pdf
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/fimutafibibibami.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ee354592d---xagebowa.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7es2fptsgtfq73baiebbq0glt3/4382452298.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62pslh0c2mggpau8gp3fjlbcl9/pexogaresorodumoforipeveb.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1cbfcb212cc01c78be69ad68043eef/51242412793.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01b1c1368a---69995361728.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm4vo3ogepqgq73p1btn1irub2/josurademid.pdf
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zojuxotufiruv.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef22.bin
8656003e2f1769c61bfcc67d5326b108074ad7b033e09f73d01f04fb821756f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF22 10856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010805.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10805 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012017.bin
3faf9854543b81af6544bba410d63bc328a309a54849b4116595ec521e688135
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12017 18020 bytes