Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7354434217a7f6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f0dac76c02672bc29e1f4adeed0f1112 SHA-1: f6914b685dd17781d832e6b375620725d5700cb3 SHA-256: 7354434217a7f6b3876921caf2250642ef5957162976f18cd1f40a2cf7b372ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, forming a link farm. These links likely serve as redirects to malicious content, as indicated by ClamAV detection and ML classification. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a8831a2148---goduwad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/velemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a4c8104ac---63749056657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaf3361a52---97501062786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac29489c7c---gimurujaposisuvixixokabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5fb01e42ac912b65a5507881624e433/91321183234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/kisuzekamezumugesazuwalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7aca7a8cd047dc0be1c2746896969c7/99082948982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/bumamilotufenebolosigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd0cdf0282---94928010204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/66500939965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714190aebef---sezasutuzuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ba2c4db3dda3af99452752f40caa9b8/74722004725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/99551005948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/71035345758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c65089af6---kukomoxorubitogawof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65fnifcgcp9uhmd6b9k8j6biss/xixukakaramofisaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/xexubuduropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/271444207637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegexikipeporoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnaq0310rgbjljd9bel9rpcl7a/71019086374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/gazomufupizebolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/vokirekodokebatugufebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=misliti+brzo+i+sporo+pdf+hrvatskiPDF 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_off0000d3d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE8 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 4e25aff7673794f1c924ba62f126b48a4005be76738117df89bb9231e4ea9daf
font_02_sfnt_off00010473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10473 18744 bytes
SHA-256: d15abc3217e7d2d3c023bccafc909d41963a374a88a485d9277a4c3f523bff62