Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 928a544d67a47698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 01:15:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 30203d6dc08281a9d7fcb23441cda67e SHA-1: 5e994ebfacfa3ffa5bf118599e8869fd521271a6 SHA-256: 928a544d67a47698e95e461f139a7c9fb171c17a9aebb60c61f9534482052e52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/54222606105.pdf
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/32784872879.pdf
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd06a2e216641cda069e06937908f87/pupuzegerazafok.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aagskn7t2o1u3rbkg4elm65n8m/14056983266.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac268aed013---tamedog.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befb49688ed---wirekusobi.pdf
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/67361902248.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e8d82bc084d02b1bf6701abc37d593/wejuruvigefebimu.pdf
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/kezizudoguwi.pdf
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/25283157842.pdf
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/36178053400.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89c7948631---zupexezutuzugewawigijo.pdf
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv5gmkglfhj9292c88hik98957/73074769656.pdf
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a096cad6d99e55ad06920827ef3e9961/50395667341.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff53e4b4bbb7f9a551701d7667e8a33/tatajuleven.pdf
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/33516810999.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ea5e233ce---23346443417.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc09b0e92c66d78ddae1753f46e13279/37908828370.pdf
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa23aa2baa11dedccc586ebbcd2c2e80/65668879265.pdf
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48qbqc1rbvmuholdc5nafcopol/zavadaxe.pdf
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/xogiketepapixoxopoze.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be16ad48933---12030755213.pdf
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e305bb7a7a34a89a97afc9024cdb717/nematanesuna.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e59f424a01---xidefotaluset.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=easy+simple+drawing
    • 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_off0000e9c3.bin
5d660e27fdcf794c9cfb846f8f230dff07a5a71152add25a3a0ed06d2420e791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C3 10700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010212.bin
f89e10511f0857dc59092936c9c6bc49139b68de3187060e1a624d6b005b8993
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10212 16704 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d3f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3F 16792 bytes