Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 879a98985feba662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 28e008b39b9a8dfd8d5d7046d0115cc3 SHA-1: 259ff93a839a3fb43f736cf7c363c12b7518a7af SHA-256: 879a98985feba66264f40fe145791b82521b168f89d491d05c87fa142bd285f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads suggest an attempt to obscure the true origin and purpose of the links.

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.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df26a63222a---zewopibabinelesofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/16830651791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6phujrccpvu29iho9vbg6lvm1g/65641214029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb96b6f658---wamajitewetibasowiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0766327acaae836504236476384bcd3a/xinovawagirorodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba294eef3d7---xutabenuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55a09f4389939cea4ab05b1686f60dc/kanenowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6bsfa08u75f98afh4tbjs0co5/44702963959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46db912ddadd2fa7e3f04d613b9fb1d/31019400651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a879e986452---92539452231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/nesone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b1802004c---36924087047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ulaj255egiqkv8b701t42312c/nisesisenupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c109aac1c9ab34cb9f9ddf2552cc4924/73964966981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929ddb7427c---pifixagapegita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3529ac1f7---65171196405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmo4r19tulbmek47t499jed9bt/pigizuduravimiremomelonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00ceca77f6---rawijodabewame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/46040575788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607073ba42e51---87867585931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1gktgnsc2tfip4ocurclvj7d5/33413247453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cb2dd9e8b---wiwufojisagukifozuwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a8ca0dabb---pufavidazinaramuxetevomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a98b34ec9a---13631204601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d4cb17b77---42442222663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=is+there+anything+i+can+help+you+withPDF 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_off0000ee43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE43 16968 bytes
SHA-256: af5e1ddb98c373e82ddfee079a199c61de177530a37faf3ea6c1a96e0c54e1f1
font_01_sfnt_off000119d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E8 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 05d099cbd779f5b0417622f02842d2cffcbe29e10e4d829ffb9ae0ef57db3a02

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