Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 600ddfa9b8b9cb54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b5385930f068c1ca494ad4d0b430b441 SHA-1: 0211525cb2c8078437565a89d3c9bc6709fe9029 SHA-256: 600ddfa9b8b9cb54ca4084220948887f767a8c5628a057e336e05fbb6538282b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085875c5b394---37842379960.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://servingltda.com/userfiles/file/89449239710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/74477372653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/39187578343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97b3033c0913e7ac2f0289e6accce180/98795773728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/72466769734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/73827261164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruntpratcher.com/clients/4/41/419cf983043b9371e8393ecf97d676f7/File/zezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71870038087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed6ae60a9c3---sosuduvirupigokemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gh3l83eidpamks0q7ul78cv23/27513924598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b95ed81c3c---porupobubupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/3700024337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/61767038495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/36817744590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/wodogojufipesepofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1i85vpaeo9v2qddbhgks1m2r6/88319060544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14562801005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6825a6098---gugagalisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629f74f2b208f3558d313b768301843c/40123063350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e846008f0b6e0f052b55ddd6550f720b/fipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=unitary+matrix+pdfPDF 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_off0000cc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC9B 19632 bytes
SHA-256: e506050f2593959ecc5ba01b02aac785a3b89ed9ff4462185e5e26dce26a0666
font_01_sfnt_off000100a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A2 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 7e39242cdce389ff53e618c9a617683fa26ae2bacfa7565069c0592506b7eab6
font_02_sfnt_off00011835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1