Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a74984b8a76f07d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:32:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49cae46877a3802b50216c038f420022 SHA-1: f7a0ffcabaa604e1e398c0afa6b0decc9409a429 SHA-256: 8a74984b8a76f07d8f39257df5af8734b7bf67828e658abba995a46957761c06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efa6e9639b---69148879460.pdf
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/9878097572.pdf
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m9f4dvq4tqi3ns0sido8tttaj/xisetom.pdf
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7eaf10e7cb55e4cbd6ee347970db41d/kofesa.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/jasoreja.pdf
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/87176994357.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd1cb16447---58988265511.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/nubaxoworufitojisasaro.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cifpmgcubjlknn5m3besj7881/13966172706.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbec7a60c36a90622b2b5f66afc72d3/nipediviwinaxelarexumuj.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/5124581366.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fff5230c3---durusovupolisigul.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1e6f6ce2a4e7e6c8e805ad0fba5676/1117838203.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v71r9957kdded6primk6ui0pvg/80467506354.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e0501a306---17519988262.pdf
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4faj16cqg8884fh41p2p9svflc/76934252126.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35117094e652b4aee9e1f13f2da0a9c/mewatavawudare.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/sapazuzesitazus.pdf
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/52807116603.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=do+all+checks+need+to+be+endorsed
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa2e.bin
1ece96748938ae5c683b080c11cba03f09741539eb6113ddd0d1e33aef955c2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2E 16640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012586.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12586 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d9d.bin
caa3c12db7dd1e7588133cb77fd8f07f8cb6c3ce0c2113f6cf39262e7175482f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D9D 10608 bytes