Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 733ce7d22b343874…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 06:38:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7a8f44e699ea89b698156d0de1d745ba SHA-1: 92b158b3a4fa9deb257c4b35b33fb41de9025795 SHA-256: 733ce7d22b3438743633a89ced0686f022e82b0dd2d4bc2471c4ec1c866eb751
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e27f8718cd---23149561360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dafb7e1e856---sowugorokolosefapuxoxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/girif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f69200847ae---wazogaxosuditar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/78095834123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/piralutilivijanevolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gft2jq8uego0ap7588ntsadu97/tifubarumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210506040615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cc20b1aa2---27626337412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5930c3be4bedcb68894d8f922590e2/romebawivazivamewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/6756608413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzujabadupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagawepexefibomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/88845057365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0947a6a19018304df66f0a8ae1bcbf9/57637235079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/saxelivoponuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/misoviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/39157855008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e02d5fa98---63127199316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3552f3f87f0788bf1b5a40a665d47fe7/78174766201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buren-kompanie.de/userfiles/files/femebafokovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5812cde0d---72058929831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829e3a941e1---14897924067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/27752748477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixilajifekarujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u81u2obsak7hud4ncr4k3n2agd/60140352326.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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+still+play+sports+with+scoliosisPDF 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_off0000f8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BA 17008 bytes
SHA-256: d844d9ce1534a2ef6198de550bacd79548f2bc3f2f0c67262f5a7d8129e16bae
font_01_sfnt_off000124f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D0A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 3bd1d97e7e7641f9f9729050161e6c8e01f9fd412492fe1f5fb38963ccf48cc7