Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 430107532d8d4e14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 12:34:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6630b1c8bb8df7d6d4563008060b99df SHA-1: 0424aafbfcf805b6bd85c3db33df5ac69a0a25a1 SHA-256: 430107532d8d4e144ce066ca0c76c36dfe665bc9b3cf33a831fd3f3022e1cc44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a high number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its malicious nature as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be4867abaf---pumumabitedufam.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b299ca18d---gaxozaxuzuvunawagixujukak.pdf
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193g7mrnpiln2kvb1u92a84r47/78476365302.pdf
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/fesuviledufoxas.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b6eea8f9c---96202483552.pdf
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10bd35d2f---25249023460.pdf
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/14023619009.pdf
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/ragojitulemoronup.pdf
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/1463386096.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608283d6879b4---77478149949.pdf
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/pafaxukutujotokojiw.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff997bd050---laluj.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a395337cd8a0c95d48d14ac437440dad/gevuremaw.pdf
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74dedbfa09---95058295801.pdf
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/mubutudezif.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3a77d458b---85408940829.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksut5mm4aoalui2vqaqf9ub6i2/larovinubevutisuk.pdf
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba838fa2778---23942871094.pdf
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98133d531be89224be3cbfa901633316/lunejaj.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5e071f35446c75dd60e75918f71bfc7/58138299875.pdf
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/nawusefaposumamafarowal.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/dotemudepujom.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=il+libro+delle+risposte+degli+angeli+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_off0000cc16.bin
dee934013f99f1e1a54338a80a12ef3e8d325485e377a98764f27975e93a2109
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC16 17012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f750.bin
6968cb6a1e51172b5960913770ec59bd6a162c7b89580b0c4957e5b661090301
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF750 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBD 16792 bytes