Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83240307c5e854b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:51:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 092bf95988c61c53f230c806767b747f SHA-1: 647445f1ac60bf32d183aef791523495c3e07227 SHA-256: 83240307c5e854b777955c7470eab6d4738581eb5f259da48124afdeb45c3115
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cfaa94276---277100129.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/pimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f830e6be9f807c1d02ae0ef5051cdb/84890878810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ml9lhjdf8n5b3hlst50dcra37/52909541942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf39d73baecd2262624f26375e7ea002/54248503231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d468e83450e---juragulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/201305236509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d102f0a416265394fe6d80c480f70a7/figufovozozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f27b063bfa---35316614857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isbpdcqjo9kvsdgact4as3n5gg/68950069662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/66876635102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/58985700527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/kebawawerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3083424caad5a0bdcee39b34b7c65c7/xilebepetozibilogegoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210615031952_go4dca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/49985315829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/60981898784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3187582bbe7da37e4e0f0f3faa95bc/22143313090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608711ae0920c---lesezodojisunabejamifavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/63934674785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca44528ad99---64218463731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanmarklight.com/UploadFile/files/fetepibuzosigukafawibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949e4876b2f237b24e00cf3984da7730/menazepesuxisodapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3ff34a5a3---mavudijodogotekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+push+and+pull+strategy+in+marketingPDF 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_off0000fd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD08 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 6215cbfe8411407b29460fb02825d0544ad3f57948fc8e2cc971bbd625e92a56
font_01_sfnt_off00012a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A41 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 1335d8981b7953cf0ee9df13fd7df064326d9244127244f88aee949203aaa33f
font_02_sfnt_off000144e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1