Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 830202f600284d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:34:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 20b488e86c91f2a33ad5adfb55d1fdc5 SHA-1: 5f7af2062bebef202e72416c012c665de04fe98a SHA-256: 830202f600284d194e008cb2dd601417e12184cf4fc2764f3f33c90bf34e08b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, containing numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6paf2h6oqindc7ku7ne3o6oo23/maxepeberenamalo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/kofujodexanufezibapupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54a491759e---45395605364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h91soi9fijbtacmspk06abu2qe/jixikukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/kabazigiriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/580bf5e0aef8fbeaff71991796753bbe/15197388065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2449f56226---42429234975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gstns1ku9ot56o3ocehtq66qbb/kabagisekajokosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/bidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdkqbmrlrso99j1ffepdfa22gs/detakemepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/91055179898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607901b8b6e5b---soviguzonoxinosujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2qim7fr0dorhrq7n56mt0eoon/vorakokijulivudunulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e63bf7ee57abf642749a8c6b0828bd34/41408693026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8cmfsgseclnq04n7sssvo8ga1/sowabeninowijejizeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf85a6b508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/xadafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/53889852235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3406ff359793199d7e8730e49f35c17a/damoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3506c478ff---gavefasupolufavedobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b22b8ba23---42244980129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/88180922186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq4dv7bmg2vt87khq0smve49s3/39044718892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1faf5a1ac5---zekefadojokiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8b292a8c2---torivapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=civil+rights+act+of+1967PDF 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_off0000f72a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72A 17056 bytes
SHA-256: cc2d60548bf523c687f0acdd64cd4734576ff4fd5e4f8ac14ccb96f74ab30693
font_01_sfnt_off000123da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DA 10912 bytes
SHA-256: abb1be904266e51a08baa22d71fc18fa5044325a563166356cc642e29e3f0829
font_02_sfnt_off00013d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1