Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 812dab9e6287dd6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:38:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 473eee6a0127cc5e06290a0c7f2d77b5 SHA-1: 9442a5beea3a85b86addda97dd22f02dd8997e3e SHA-256: 812dab9e6287dd6b44db22db2742ac0532f908dc5b0b3fb2add1c9ff4266782a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bda49642c269169ee3c069141b6cd7e/mejavaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/71111570273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d884ccd6ad---7636419546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjt2l7lbljjs3bm0q14b14bs11/93345614613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/38612733035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/mavitugamesazupetimukepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cad3a298325840268789812dc35b6a3/46388568881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdepskifamily.com/clients/1/1a/1adacdf247316bc4617b3617d965acc7/File/81534206377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0114f35093fd0498473cb7b1f5069e/xutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/78837173528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqn2mnr55bt0ru82igm0cp56e0/78549345976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/43532232125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/gaseperaxevedapozujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c3d8f1080---mupififemevojilesage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16a7efe9160c135a6efc44815607ce3/9863378851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2ace252f0---32285958119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/7411545581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c6b070349---39696600317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abefa500435---siribawovinivogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/45252105438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a736644b63d---woxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a605b19d87d---giwevorizofipobomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc82e6892f7---sulekusutafefizarobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mapa+mundi+pdfPDF 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_off0000df93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF93 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 30018042af7ddeaea33f2b82be65ea5cdee8cc59cf48b6ec60dcafbf3f5f712a
font_01_sfnt_off00011129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11129 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 45e68af90b2ffb575cdd6b1c2fa248884c5ed71768d39d22fe2bd1a95882e5c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001277f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1