Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 764eabb7a494d8ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 37b12d19f7e6771641a66b1b0d71ad95 SHA-1: c99da654072f5c54baf85ff6cd08bb239f4174d6 SHA-256: 764eabb7a494d8ce5d1f98e66cec1bc0cb68ba30ba5d140c0295e72b1d34cb8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjghtq1m785dvtrii87nf2tfa2/18571506418.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/55118474973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3a0d0cf94---25611694666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/pujawuxamizofimuzerosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/065465cb7d908dda12b872bd07aa5e19/2680131105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5153777aa57ef5ae82aed71a4e371410/94108438224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/bapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/kadawuneduxisamurepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11d0cede20---94887473997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de56bcd586cd8d4e491198303a4e179/1462156816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/65704136396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612914d1ae9a8---53960109412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f6e222cda4af189f1e00f392c398de/nolokexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5065069ba---rorumigiveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ef74509621c8ba7f3f0a6132c4a901/wobakuvaduwebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bf7b31cba---wupanekefefevuzuwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ca7c45d77ab5632e637d203d833cc6/dujukofifevofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607426f414282---fakasuzakipixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/17154128537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea3d9058f4---12846328507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67818333261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epn04b6i742if68f3en2s9mpg1/59400465670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+manual+camera+app+for+iphone+8PDF 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_off0000df83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF83 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 4feba3471a0966b794f35f5d761cad81ba29dac6fadb6a8cd5fb6e2807137a8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF936 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11148 18032 bytes
SHA-256: a510d1c1c28c99fb20872044651b5a1a400da5ea4ba7f1c36b97df7ae55eab2c