Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 725d8a416dea9678…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 21:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f67cadbd2a2cca1f2d804ddadb0be7e0 SHA-1: 3f6d0561924fe0d180df38bae54e4e96c65e5ea2 SHA-256: 725d8a416dea9678594a74b140380403b788fd6574a853a03dcc1d241c6082ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, aiming to lure victims to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/49246919696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161204a1c4a2dc---21212932733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb6e16941e---jimifitofarana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixugapowobiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/mabefube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8806213fdfaf19e27d38486b87c863/56018292258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/56555512049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93355570487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/69611473596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/92917744427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70af58e46e2e5f7f82e6a4efee708a96/fuvafoziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/43973260774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/31051947346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1onf4966058n80fghgtrk2tes/gorowotitego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fff3c4a77a---vuzunemitaramesimezemuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqhv5nbe21c8u5l448sbmv1obk/84841508657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/fomujedisarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/91176526233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7aa00aeda7---43593671701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c71c92e332fc27ffd7d9c7e02baee91e/titete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/vebanadenepekefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/27454872377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609853d6d3f2e---sabetanikekobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a09dd5afbddc50db8478d079338371/3936955440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c94594c9ee540d228ded8edd8149ffc/84543956601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+sound+and+the+fury+benjy+sectionPDF 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_off0000cca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA7 17504 bytes
SHA-256: cdb13200ba41ae0e03b1e1b7ab9b38a03a109866fbb12c2ab99ef2ff9accda7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11141 10972 bytes
SHA-256: b6c94a5974e414d700ee2c3eb91eb7411aa2bc7f0f46fdb250116c0cceb7ffa8