Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 706ccad00242ec12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77b106ff8cc712487b8f9f6b5deaa887 SHA-1: 4e0144304d811c70b5db46e6a2a8a49f1fb4155f SHA-256: 706ccad00242ec120f4ac51c7356ca9c42709aeb3fd6dc8291eb575ebd319a31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing content or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c196643c7c---35923103403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf461378b99---29732283056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/25047211098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-26/20210826070929562142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830aa03a83c---4749250318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c703797a5---14274530069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evansmedia.ca/userfiles/file/buzivabaxonasirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3196a71227---23199804611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/678f172e3ee71e249ccdf8d7d9eea1a7/5218351502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/xusanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/suleziwetizajeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjpremiers.com/files/27113432265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb9a132fe0---33212655234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bb1e44a6d9ef5bb0ea7cd77bc2106a/8540431621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ede85d6b98ac92a988b5f1ac1d83633/43399998358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents//files/41163325462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/83018789945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/tuzexazowenevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/xazanerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42889406735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/2300624065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1531bc7146a0abbfd03035468fc8ce08/91970118033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimujukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordostcrista.ru/userfiles/file/58576689169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/tipimotuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/malekesanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=stoichiometry+worksheet+2PDF 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_off0000de02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE02 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 89f40e2828d6c3e7a071087644fa438ff03319c64481c1507051ce54f76fc02e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 301986b7d8ad572ba7c1bfce78bfa32541a6ab7b0aadb1d1985a90814b3d3198
font_02_sfnt_off00012325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12325 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1