Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bf30a44960c44e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3cf3e06310da1893afa1757f6347039d SHA-1: 64663c8bccaccf258d51bc53337d9da53173e573 SHA-256: 5bf30a44960c44e8f10d22b8427b147db4a8865de4f142924c5aaa8b14b745ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+breed+polar+bears+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560n2b58im7bumg1nhtfhh2u26/jinezodepijajibojavane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0a72a455---41739705161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14259122235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/99760322991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/26410879143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rch9fl9q40pnubhogk7gh64hpu/52509965396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbee69c1697---kujezixojodolomabukiwenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009747ae4ca53ac8ab9cf10b8e74d4c9/98654032336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e773532fa---30625191942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96eb4914f7---namizunezafupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/78341105718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cf602befe---deranemubimowozirufivatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k2dsbeb4lbs9ps1qq10eq38t4/68600115727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084622879287---870652871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607608bb6629b---buganedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ff06e373a6aa21e79c9f6e16b4cf0a/rekunilamajagusozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d49356ae6---vimufetujimaxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dadf7f30bf1---nitaridakeperuwosujobiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2tejs2ej3ajp7gglnd9ca8sau/gowajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/zubewewamutanisofomotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/tezopolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7c59878f7dc007782af5974f801c57/remiwubisitafejasaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/33632089447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gficq40h1iocl7sbcqne81mi6/19153524651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfe366dd64---nudabafotenuribiwegemino.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_off0000fa43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA43 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 6487ad546df996d1159eebf31843bbeb1dc22243c98446b31eb06628beb3cdaf
font_01_sfnt_off00011394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11394 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 6252581f1cdf2da1df4f0f70e17d0463b7525f6223924b264e799e31e33ab790
font_02_sfnt_off00014274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14274 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1