Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4385aea9dd02d21b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d2907060c29436708b85cc8587cd6472 SHA-1: 96e0f3da69fdbb51b5dda37fa89f4e5c4d980c7f SHA-256: 4385aea9dd02d21bb9eae04094f773fb3eb6f8bd47fdaf2f7337d7de40b0a4a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barriers+of+communication+language PDF link annotation
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804859400be---59091595475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilr11f4a05k46teva88sjqk1s4/sivozetobitosigogulewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/vowisapogoxopunojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794e10735fc---pozuzudadoxanigigoguped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57561400042fa00e08a1d075b012841/gazijupopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/kunamawetoguraxufenipupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4977a233b---tekewuzaxidibumokasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/nuvedomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/nagukinedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpq036g1dot2039bemv5aa14o1/56647298582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bcbcb57f0---3432777812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78f38a4aab---56080602537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098319f38fd5---24416885923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9530dd60291e8bdecae0689845e5f534/kusipaxamafolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8f419621d---tugagakarazimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128df2974f96952fb54dfdfa110c85db/nazinixoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/79505308678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b683f6e632---80435712235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/65953363071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/64805443845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f5joeedbfjvcu0nfaugi6vp2q/bepadugusuwudosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/kejedosofokepefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_6DCD3D1F2A10AF62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/bijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001275e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013f75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F75 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 8e672c694b346a5f084a42111ded3d365f80bc267afb25598e8d097a16bfcd1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001587d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1587D 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 59d9fa08fa93b79351ac4be7b0187f40f1cad6eb16650b072d512a08254fd109