Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 428da702959c66e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

221.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 17:16:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 14fb53a4a25c25c24d8536a8c098c49b SHA-1: 09940d4b090feeb68248d44219233173b0185fb3 SHA-256: 428da702959c66e46fb08b9396fb6ff811e482f3067583ab07908f3546bda20a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8635

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://idroter.org/userfiles/files/71318752909.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/vavitojovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/49217742340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej2iglf3ktm33hc9ccq11ohj34/98908786524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0b82469bd86f997c349263cae0e625/85853448345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/37422761521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/93142320276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/13078486600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/52033373302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/td19nhm52jq05dqd6693mgc1s7/wobidive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2f45b8c44---96018857845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/13201412864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e051229d3---tevewawizugaromab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/70945239191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e5262a8c---47886926535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7r2uvmbqjn0lg0u18tb9pmsrf/bupaweruxifiwijugewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ded3590ccd42e20608fadde850a6037/47715624678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/19852375058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903babe1a8e---15292063437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfychina.com/upfiles/files/16252737781262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ef2a0a983---faviforakasikoxagafafirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/sazorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82068445963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=disney+frozen+2+dvd+release+date+ukPDF 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_off00030109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x30109 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00031920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31920 10900 bytes
SHA-256: d56a7fd38644534d2a62c0c45cd03b8690359f8ec9603108297b7ca1b938311b
font_02_sfnt_off000332a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x332A0 21004 bytes
SHA-256: c26e1a3f34a7cc78cf795ed214dc295913980ecbeb534fa6657e1cce81988728