Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8932959249c2972c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ad9f0c450132314da1dd32bbfbe1e67d SHA-1: 266abe7361a739fa56ef739d2b9361ec9ce4116c SHA-256: 8932959249c2972c16bea7eb1f556c3fdc802ef2b68f1e1b873e53d6f5c224af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of distributing malicious content through a network of seemingly unrelated sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/72248979725.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d023d8cf7ad78855b34e158edc33d7/82658698596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507112843779164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07790251a2---domofolinegixezebaxilojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/sakadategezuvifademug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpfo53ogaa8mru52fpdhcvcvh7/gilupesikefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2fcfd8e2b---18961632890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6c2eeee16---33773705239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srtka7emjg5uq3glb7jkgmlp68/74445075006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/31906555058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/16088170636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/34775992838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/jimafotitejufitolixozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5e1062e9d---dorixokotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/sugefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofduj4pksdotbg0mfhjsosgmv6/zoziganiwukegivijiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/61420556755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c1d13bc81---bevikunubiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f355ac70f8---zefelirenadesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607235697095c---mujogaxubufesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746d18ba7ed---fokoxopuzeboruvukujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/kurexovelokola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/20542073732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/48012466874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800a4179892---lipetagekejoxejomativawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+of+informationPDF 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_off0000eded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10604 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 006806f1426b27193ff489acae68f00d847c03c41c5135680060ba934ec4b1e8
font_02_sfnt_off00011d78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D78 17140 bytes
SHA-256: d38a3bc2293af22ffb53e19697f269b5c0524c27dfc949bd98b31dfadd3a0f4b