Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 914538894ce996d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5bce9e8b714641c99df3fe8cc7b0d3a6 SHA-1: 1108e4f7c47420341f19cfdccc7a144efc63ac4f SHA-256: 914538894ce996d997129357fe7ce3c7ce40ffb16a1a9a46b35ebfb92736163c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This suggests a campaign to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef1a19d6dcf7a9d6971b0f4800b3824/ruseriwuburatelanujufabug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpj4tvjov381odigh74rl07nfh/bitifivomerowafame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh1bd6u47i024ev149sff14165/nefuzaposonepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/60213499741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb4839a65f404433c637f06fc85c9903/negoxulezelikuzumoresoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b71fa192f---41134966912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18fdfc24f9d6b6f0b499e022f27d2afd/vejuliguwobasoroxekoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e374f914311566ba04ed91a1afa2a85/77843989928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e7a93610c2b142e37a91a83e38a2e70/35392486130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783711e84e6---jobago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14bc0e9b85ecb272cbb69a0d2e6fd977/zezimada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/wumadeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879727d2fbd7919e43d26eea8f6d7941/38782973388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/12517373972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c04b5b93b101594acdcf5edb6ff797/2660901761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702fefd6fd8---lukavefixelunenakivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b436ce46c2f---81787579209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/34581862157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1975.com/clients/0/01/014dde3c838f86fef2ac1d31a86c415b/File/zekupusatekakibewati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00fb3e926b---89524847110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e9f461453---kojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59133aead0c59d95dcececcfd3399b16/xuwilaxopefasinizifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=software+html+to+pdfPDF 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_off0000fa71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11283 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 73b0424addb48e228f2842ba79a01fa1a89ee4f27d986629742840d15ce7d6c4
font_02_sfnt_off00013e2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E2C 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ed34eeb97f619deec8344a5fe10a0b840828fbbb978fced5f4c4f3632be7b032