Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 885453c1122467c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-21 06:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 344a359e0eac399780e163897218b7f5 SHA-1: 4a721ab0b1031540988b87966e348a92ffd2740a SHA-256: 885453c1122467c5b3a9d1302881af216dfb55fa9e994f16e0b62de88bf2ce56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to popular content, suggesting a lure to attract clicks. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the attack pattern of using compromised or disposable hosting for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chungcungoaigiao.net/uploads/files/61403666646.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0e7029afb5884d8e38ffa6fd7f7f85/pigesadesivajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/vemubasabejotuvumejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/jufiworoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c572651a594---92901825083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/21854303211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hc984bb8euessuq1fi5cpriu6/6833253524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949ba507b94---zakunitoliwegonikagaparaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvi30vm495biss73ju7anovamj/72529671727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/lifiborez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943c103ce5---boromexezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/bizutumemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtpejiasjmufh82rihtj78lr95/wobedesuzerurevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac65d26a512---xoranegimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/57158972254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+mandalorian+season+2+streaming+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE044 5404 bytes
SHA-256: c4127c91684c13c3141d7ab270f01be6584e3bc21f08472d2e7a587843b71cb1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF270 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 54d4f40ce8750cf0f76b220ea31e0382165b9e691fbc0ec7afbdd7fae31f1977